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A Melitz-style model of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms is integrated into a simple New Economic Geography model to show that the standard assumption of identical firms is neither necessary nor innocuous. We show that re-locating to the big region is most attractive for the...
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capital income taxes, and each region's supply of public goods. The findings suggest that regional fiscal differences play an …
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height and per capita income. The relationships among income, nutrition, medical care, and height at the individual level … suggest that average height is nonlinearly related to per capita income and that the distribution of income is an important … determinant of average height. Empirical analysis rests on 56 height studies and per capita income estimates for 20 developed or …
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Why was the Black Death followed by the decline of serfdom in Western Europe but its' intensification in Eastern Europe? What explains why involvement in Atlantic trade in the Early Modern period was positively correlated with economic growth in Britain but negatively correlated in Spain? Why...
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the lens of the quantified model, the change in the income distribution between 1990 and 2014 led to neighborhood change … households, above and beyond rising nominal income inequality.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and …
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We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
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One account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this for forty regions of Japan. Our results identify important effects of a region's own size, as well as cost linkages between producers and suppliers of inputs. Productivity links...
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Chay, Guryan and Mazumder (2009) found substantial racial convergence in AFQT and NAEP scores across cohorts born in the 1960's and early 1970's that was concentrated among blacks in the South. We demonstrated a close tracking between variation in the test score convergence across states and...
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income at the national level. The conditional expectation of child income given parent income is linear in percentile ranks …. On average, a 10 percentile increase in parent income is associated with a 3.4 percentile increase in a child's income … child reaches the top quintile of the national income distribution starting from a family in the bottom quintile is 4.4% in …
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In this paper we study the role of the transportation sector in world trade. We build a spatial model that centers on the interaction of the market for (oceanic) transportation services and the market for world trade in goods. The model delivers equilibrium trade flows, as well as equilibrium...
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