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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare … American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …
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Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2016
India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts …
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How Do Voters Respond to Welfare Vis-a-Vis Public Good Programs? Theory and Evidence of Political Clientelism
Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government welfare benefits but not to local public good programs, while reporting having benefited from both. Consistent with these voting patterns, shocks to electoral competition induced...
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Reconstruction Aid, Public Infrastructure, and Economic Development : The Case of the Marshall Plan in Italy
Giorcelli, Michela; Bianchi, Nicola - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The Marshall Plan (1948-1952) was the largest aid transfer in history. This paper estimates its effects on Italy's postwar economic development. It exploits differences between Italian provinces in the value of reconstruction grants they received. Provinces that could modernize more their...
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage...
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Changing Economic Geography and Vertical Linkages in Japan
Tomiura, Eiichi - 2003
In Japan, the manufacturing has become geographically dispersed in the 1990s, when the import share has risen after the historic exchange rate appreciation. As is consistent with the interpretation that import penetration undermines regional input-output linkages, our regressions detect the...
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Regions, Resources, and Economic Geography : Sources of U.S. Regional Comparative Advantage, 1880-1987
Kim, Sukkoo - 1997
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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Pollution and Mortality in the 19th Century
Hanlon, W. Walker - 2015
Mortality was extremely high in the industrial cities of the 19th century, but little is known about the role played by pollution in generating this pattern, due largely to a lack of direct pollution measures. I overcome this problem by combining data on the local composition of industries in...
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Heterogeneous Firms, Agglomeration and Economic Geography : Spatial Selection and Sorting
Baldwin, Richard - 2005
A Melitz-style model of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms is integrated into a simple New Economic Geography model to show that the standard assumption of identical firms is neither necessary nor innocuous. We show that re-locating to the big region is most attractive for the...
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