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Religious Conversion in 40 Countries
Barro, Robert J. - 2007
Questions about current and prior religion adherence from the International Social Survey Program and the World Values Survey allow us to calculate country-level religious-conversion rates for 40 countries. These conversion rates apply to religion adherence classified into eight major types. In...
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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics : Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
Munshi, Kaivan D. - 2010
Parochial politics is typically associated with poor leadership and low levels of public good provision. This paper explores the possibility that community involvement in politics need not necessarily worsen governance and, indeed, can be efficiency-enhancing when the context is appropriate....
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Spatial Misallocation : Evaluating Place-Based Policies Using a Natural Experiment in China
Chen, Binkai - 2019
Using the mass closure of development zones in 2004 as a natural experiment, we examine the causal effect of development zones on firm level TFP in China. The difference-in-difference estimator shows that on average, loss of development zone policies results in 6.5% loss of firms' TFP....
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Place-Based Policies
Neumark, David - 2014
Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...
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Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting
Fajgelbaum, Pablo - 2018
We study optimal spatial policies in a quantitative trade and geography framework with spillovers and spatial sorting of heterogeneous workers. We characterize the spatial transfers that must hold in efficient allocations, as well as labor subsidies that can implement them. There exists scope...
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Jobs for the Heartland : Place-Based Policies in 21st Century America
Austin, Benjamin - 2018
The economic convergence of American regions has greatly slowed, and rates of long-term non-employment have even been … diverging. Simultaneously, the rate of non-employment for working age men has nearly tripled over the last 50 years, generating …-based policies? We document that increases in labor demand appear to have greater impacts on employment in areas where not working …
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Place-Based Policies for Development
Duranton, Gilles - 2018
Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are “place-based.” Such policies are generally intended to stimulate private sector investment and economic growth in the treated place, and as such they are difficult to appraise and...
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The Revealed Preference of the Chinese Communist Party Leadership : Investing in Local Economic Development Versus Rewarding Social Connections
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2018
Over the last 30 years, the Chinese government has invested in new industrial parks with the intent of stimulating urban economic growth. The central government delegates the site selection decision to provincial leaders. A principal-agent issue arises because the central government prioritizes...
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Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China
Démurger, Sylvie; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Woo, Wing Thye; … - 2021
Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996-99. Their...
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Redistribution Policy : A European Model
Casella, Alessandra - 2021
Following the rationale for regional redistribution programs described in the official documents of the European Union, this paper studies a very simple multi-country model built around two regions: a core and a periphery. Technological spill-overs link firms' productivity in each of the two...
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