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The Slow Decline of East Germany
Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has...
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Spatial Development
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth...
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Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000
Redding, Stephen James; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
agglomeration over time towards an increased emphasis on human interaction. …
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Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy
Allen, Treb; Arkolakis, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We develop a versatile general equilibrium framework to determine the spatial distribution of economic activity on any surface with (nearly) any geography. Combining the gravity structure of trade with labor mobility, we provide conditions for the existence, uniqueness, and stability of a...
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Cities and Ideas
Packalen, Mikko; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
Faster technological progress has long been considered a key potential benefit of agglomeration. Physical proximity to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159889
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The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall
Redding, Stephen James; Sturm, Daniel M.; Ahlfeldt, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces … estimate agglomeration and dispersion forces, we use data on thousands of city blocks in Berlin for 1936, 1986 and 2006 and … residential externalities. We show that the model with the estimated agglomeration parameters can account both qualitatively and …
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The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
Burgess, Robin; Miguel, Edward Andrew; Jedwab, Remi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts across the 1963-2011 period. Guided by a model it then examines whether the transition in and out of democracy...
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Transportation Choices and the Value of Statistical Life
Miguel, Edward Andrew; León, Gianmarco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper exploits an unusual transportation setting to estimate the value of a statistical life (VSL). We estimate the trade-offs individuals are willing to make between mortality risk and cost as they travel to and from the international airport in Sierra Leone (which is separated from the...
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The Agricultural Productivity Gap
Gollin, Douglas; Lagakos, David; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950838
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Barriers to Electrification for "Under Grid" Households in Rural Kenya
Miguel, Edward Andrew; Lee, Kenneth; Brewer, Eric; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 600 million people live without electricity. Despite ambitions of governments and donors to invest in rural electrification, decisions about how to extend electricity access are being made in the absence of rigorous evidence. Using a novel dataset of 20,000 geo-tagged...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950926