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Income Growth and the Distributional Effects of Urban Spatial Sorting
Couture, Victor - 2019
We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting patterns within large U.S. cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with heterogeneous agents and non-homothetic preferences for neighborhoods with endogenous amenity quality. As the rich...
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Stirring Up a Hornets' Nest : Geographic Distribution of Crime
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
This paper develops a model of the geographic distribution of crime in an urban area. When the police protect some neighborhoods (concentrated protection), the city becomes segregated. When the police are evenly deployed across the city (dispersed protection), an integrated city emerges. Unequal...
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Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the Twentieth-Century United States : 2019 Presidential Address for the Economic History Association
Fishback, Price V. - 2022
The growth of American governments in the twentieth century included large increases in funds for social insurance and public assistance. Social insurance has increased far more than public assistance, so “rise in the social insurance state” is a far better description of the century than...
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Contemporary State Policies and Intergenerational Income Mobility
Lefgren, Lars John; Pope, Jaren; Sims, David - 2022
Using county-level analysis, this study demonstrates that there exists at most a minor relationship between the large, contemporary geographical variation in U.S. intergenerational income mobility and state-level policies. In addition to investigating the effects of specific policies, we...
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Trade Liberalization, Poverty, and Inequality : Evidence from Indian Districts
Topalova, Petia B. - 2021
poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external … factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in … pre-liberalization industrial composition across districts in India and the variation in the degree of liberalization …
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The Contribution of China, India and Brazil to Narrowing North-South Differences in Gdp/Capita, World Trade Shares, and Market Capitalization
Wang, Jing - 2012
/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …
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Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among … economies for entry hold when considering changes in India's incumbent industry structures from 1989, determined before large …
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Housing Inequality
Albouy, David - 2016
Inequality in U.S. housing prices and rents both declined in the mid-20th century, even as home-ownership rates rose. Subsequently, housing-price inequality has risen to pre-War levels, while rent inequality has risen less. Combining both measures, we see inequality in housing consumption...
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Economic Transformation, Population Growth and the Long-Run World Income Distribution
Chamon, Marcos - 2006
We construct and calibrate a model of the world economy in which countries' opportunities to develop depend on their trade with advanced economies. Trade opportunities in turn depend on the relative population of the advanced and developing world. As developing countries become advanced, they...
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Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
Ganong, Peter - 2019
The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across states and in population flows to high-income places. These changes coincide with a disproportionate increase in housing prices in high-income places, a divergence in the skill-specific returns to moving...
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