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Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the Twentieth-Century United States : 2019 Presidential Address for the Economic History Association
Fishback, Price V. - 2022
place and compare them to the poverty line, manufacturing earnings and benefits, state per capita incomes in the US, as well …
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Trade Liberalization, Poverty, and Inequality : Evidence from Indian Districts
Topalova, Petia B. - 2021
poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external … factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in … about 15 percent of India's progress in poverty reduction over the 1990s. The results are robust to pre-reform trends …
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Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
Couture, Victor - 2019
We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting patterns within large U.S. cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with heterogeneous agents and non-homothetic preferences for neighborhoods with endogenous amenity quality. As the rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864806
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Stirring Up a Hornets' Nest : Geographic Distribution of Crime
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
This paper develops a model of the geographic distribution of crime in an urban area. When the police protect some neighborhoods (concentrated protection), the city becomes segregated. When the police are evenly deployed across the city (dispersed protection), an integrated city emerges. Unequal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994380
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Trends in Regional Inequality in China
Jian, Tianlun; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Warner, Andrew M. - 2021
Several recent studies have examined the tendency of regions within a nation to exhibit long-term convergence in per capita income levels. Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991, 1992, 1995) have found a tendency towards convergence among the U.S. states, among Japanese prefectures, and among regions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013233027
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Growth in Regions
Gennaioli, Nicola - 2015
We use a newly assembled sample of 1,503 regions from 82 countries to compare the speed of per capita income 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,...
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Persistence and Path Dependence in the Spatial Economy
Allen, Treb; Donaldson, Dave - 2022
How much of the spatial distribution of economic activity today is determined by history rather than by geographic fundamentals? And if history matters for the distribution, does it also affect overall efficiency? This paper develops a tractable theoretical and empirical framework that aims to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090933
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The Knowledge Trap : Human Capital and Development Reconsidered
Jones, Benjamin F. - 2014
shallow knowledge. This simple idea can inform cross-country income differences, international trade patterns, poverty traps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751445
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Trends in U.S. Spatial Inequality : Concentrating Affluence and a Democratization of Poverty
Gaubert, Cecile; Kline, Patrick; Vergara, Damian; … - 2022
the late 1970s. In contrast, bottom income quantiles and poverty rates have converged across areas in recent decades …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089530
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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization
Wang, Jing - 2012
/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …
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