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Sprawl and Urban Growth
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2021
transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the …
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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016
characteristics into two groups, those primarily important for agriculture and those primarily important for trade, we find that the … agriculture variables have relatively more explanatory power in countries that developed early and the trade variables have … agriculture today. We explain this apparent puzzle in a model in which two technological shocks occur, one increasing agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994896
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The Biophysical and Economic Geographies of Global Climate Impacts on Agriculture
Baldos, Uris - 2018
agriculture. It does so by bridging the extensive literature on climate impacts on yields and physical productivity in global crop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915233
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The Changing Incidence of Geography
Anderson, James E. - 2009
The incidence of bilateral trade costs is calculated here using neglected properties of the structural gravity model, disaggregated by commodity and region, and re-aggregated into forms useful for economic geography. For Canada's provinces, 1992- 2003, incidence is on average some five times...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766009
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Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity
Redding, Stephen J. - 2014
economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multi-region model of economic geography that we use to understand the … general equilibrium implications of transportation infrastructure improvements within and between locations for wages … effects of transportation infrastructure improvements on economic development, paying particular attention to the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052110
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Institutions Don'T Rule : Direct Effects of Geography on Per Capita Income
Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 2021
In a series of papers, my colleagues and I have demonstrated that levels of per capita income, economic growth, and other economic and demographic dimensions are strongly correlated with geographical and ecological variables such as climate zone, disease ecology, and distance from the coast....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224667
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Geography and Economic Development
Gallup, John Luke; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Mellinger, Andrew D. - 2021
This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013238940
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Market Potential and Global Growth Over the Long Twentieth Century
Jacks, David S. - 2016
market potential exhibits an upward trend across all regions of the world from the early 1930s and that this trend … significantly deviates from the evolution of world GDP. Finally, using exogenous variation in trade-related distances to world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981102
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The Effects of Urban Concentration on Economic Growth
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2021
The paper examines whether there is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy, or the share of the largest metro area in national urban population. Is there reason to believe many countries have excessive primacy and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220924
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The Geography of Fear
Treisman, Daniel - 2011
Whether the danger invoked is nuclear war or genetically modified foods, far more people in some countries than in others say they are afraid. Using data from six surveys, I show that the levels of reported fear of different dangers correlate strongly across both individuals and countries. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129117