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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231579
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Spatial Misallocation : Evaluating Place-Based Policies Using a Natural Experiment in China
Chen, Binkai - 2019
development zones on firm level TFP in China. The difference-in-difference estimator shows that on average, loss of development … three major seaports in China, closure of zones reduced firm-level TFP by 9.62%, whereas closure of zones farther away did … locational heterogeneity. We conclude that China's strategy of using development zones as a place-based policy to encourage …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918622
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Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push : 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
Kline, Patrick - 2014
We study the long run effects of one of the most ambitious regional development programs in U.S. history: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Using as controls authorities that were proposed but never approved by Congress, we find that the TVA led to large gains in agricultural employment that...
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National Policy for Regional Development : Historical Evidence from Appalachian Highways
Jaworski, Taylor - 2016
How effective are policies aimed at integrating isolated regions? We answer this question in the context of a highway system in one of the poorest regions in the United States. With construction starting in 1965, the Appalachian Development Highway System ultimately consisted of over 2,500...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996884
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Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2012
We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary economic performance, as...
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Spatial Patterns of Development : A Meso Approach
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2017
Over the last two decades, the literature on comparative development has moved from country-level to within-country analyses. The questions asked have expanded, as economists have used satellite images of light density at night and other big spatial data to proxy for development at the desired...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941961
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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions
Lewis, Ethan G. - 2014
In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048050
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Regional Transfers
Corbi, Raphael B. - 2014
We exploit a series of discontinuities, at several population thresholds, in the allocation mechanism of federal transfers to municipal governments in Brazil to identify the causal effect of municipal spending on local labor markets, using a ‘fuzzy' regression discontinuity design. Our...
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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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