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Regions, Resources, and Economic Geography : Sources of U.S. Regional Comparative Advantage, 1880-1987

Kim, Sukkoo - 2022

This paper estimates the Rybczynski equation matrix for the twenty two-digit U.S." manufacturing industries for various years between 1880 and 1987. As predicted by the standard" general equilibrium theory of interregional trade, the regression estimates show that a consistent" set of factor...

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Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China

Démurger, Sylvie; Sachs, Jeffrey; Woo, Wing Thye; Bao, … - 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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Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography and Sorting

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 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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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 …

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National Policy for Regional Development : Historical Evidence from Appalachian Highways

Jaworski, Taylor - 2016

system in one of the poorest regions in the United States. With construction starting in 1965, the Appalachian Development …

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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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Pre-Colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

Michalopulos, Stelios - 2012

We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development … association between pre-colonial ethnic political centralization and regional development. This pattern is not driven by … positive association between pre-colonial political complexity and contemporary development obtains also within pairs of …

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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan - 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...

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Spatial Patterns of Development : A Meso Approach

Michalopulos, Stelios - 2017

Over the last two decades, the literature on comparative development has moved from country-level to within … spatial data to proxy for development at the desired level. The focus has also shifted from uncovering correlations to … sciences to linguistics and history has transformed the research landscape on the roots of the spatial patterns of development …

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Self-Defeating Regional Concentration

Matsuyama, Kiminori; Takahashi, Takaaki - 2010

We present a simple model of a two-region economy in which undesirable concentration may occur. With freedom to choose where to live, individuals in this economy concentrate into one region in their pursuit of better life, and end up becoming worse off. We characterize the conditions under which...

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