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Cities, Skills, and Regional Change
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2011
One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf's or Gibrat's Law. An alternative view is that urban change reflects individual responses to changing tastes or technologies. This paper examines almost 200 years of regional change in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127422
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Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy
Busso, Matias - 2010
This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the Longitudinal Business Database. To ground our welfare analysis, we develop a heterogeneous agent general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142084
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The Greenness of Cities : Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013
Carbon dioxide emissions may create significant social harm because of global warming, yet American urban development tends to be in low density areas with very hot summers. In this paper, we attempt to quantify the carbon dioxide emissions associated with new construction in different locations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753493
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China and the Tpp : A Numerical Simulation Assessment of the Effects Involved
Li, Chunding - 2012
other pacific countries are included, China is notable for its exclusion from the process thus far. This paper uses … numerical simulation methods to assess the potential effects of a TPP agreement on China and the other participating countries …. Simulation results reveal that China will be hurt by TPP initiatives, but the negative effects are relatively small given the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106304
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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing
Zheng, Siqi - 2011
In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125912
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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 … suggests that current regional economic development policies that bolster the growth of China's northeastern cities are likely … China's cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095236
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Are Chinese Growth and Inflation Too Smooth? Evidence from Engel Curves
Nakamura, Emi - 2014
China has experienced remarkably stable growth and inflation in recent years according to official statistics. We …
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Towards a System of Open Cities in China : Home Prices, FDI Flows and Air Quality in 35 Major Cities
Zheng, Siqi; Kahn, Matthew E.; Liu, Hongyu - 2021
Over the last thirty years, China's major cities have experienced significant income and population growth. Much of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232034
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Regional Distribution and Dynamics of Human Capital in China 1985-2014 : Education, Urbanization, and Aging of the Population
Li, Haizheng - 2016
-Fraumeni human capital measurement framework and modify it to estimate provincial level human capital in China. We produce a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976986
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The Birth of Edge Cities in China : Measuring the Spillover Effects of Industrial Parks
Zheng, Siqi - 2015
Several Chinese cities have invested billions of dollars to construct new industrial parks. These place based investments solve the land assembly problem which allows many productive firms to co-locate close to each other. The resulting local economic growth creates new opportunities for real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019125