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Regional Economic Development and Mexican Out-Migration

Unger, Kurt - 2021

and migratory flows intensity. The most relevant results are the existence of income convergence over time between high …

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Growth in Regions

Gennaioli, Nicola - 2015

convergence within and across countries. Regional growth is shaped by similar factors as national growth, such as geography and … human capital. Regional convergence is about 2.5% per year, not more than 1% per year faster than convergence between … countries. Regional convergence is faster in richer countries, and countries with better capital markets. A calibration of a …

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Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance

Delgado, Mercedes - 2015

regions. On the one hand, diminishing returns to specialization in a location can result in a convergence effect: the growth … available data from the US Cluster Mapping Project to disentangle the impact of convergence at the region-industry level from … agglomeration within clusters. We find that, after controlling for the impact of convergence at the narrowest unit of analysis …

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Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing

Hornbeck, Richard - 2019

We examine impacts of market integration on the development of American manufacturing, as railroads expanded through the latter half of the 19th century. Using new county-by-industry data from the Census of Manufactures, we estimate substantial impacts on manufacturing productivity from relative...

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An Equilibrium Model of "Global Imbalances" and Low Interest Rates

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2009

Three of the most important recent facts in global macroeconomics -- the sustained rise in the US current account deficit, the stubborn decline in long run real rates, and the rise in the share of US assets in global portfolio -- appear as anomalies from the perspective of conventional wisdom...

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Chinese Rural Industrial Productivity and Urban Spillovers

Peng, Yusheng - 2014

Chinese rural industry has grown three times faster than national GDP, surpassing agriculture in size in 1987, and now nearing half of the total Chinese economy. We use a rich, new county-level data set to explore this dramatic growth. We find that a Cobb-Douglas production function explains...

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Spatial Growth and Industry Age

Desmet, Klaus - 2012

U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory where local sectoral growth is driven by technological...

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Railroads and American Economic Growth : a "Market Access" Approach

Donaldson, Dave - 2013

This paper examines the historical impact of railroads on the American economy. Expansion of the railroad network may have affected all counties directly or indirectly - an econometric challenge that arises in many empirical settings. However, the total impact on each county is captured by...

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The Greenness of China : Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development

Zheng, Siqi - 2013

China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses micro data to rank 74 major Chinese cities with respect to their household carbon footprint. We find that the "greenest" cities based on this criterion are Huaian and Suqian...

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The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960-2010

Jedwab, Remi; Storeygard, Adam - 2022

Previous work on transportation investments has focused on average impacts in high- and middle-income countries. We estimate average and heterogeneous effects in a poor continent, Africa, using roads and cities data spanning 50 years in 39 countries. Using changes in market access due to distant...

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