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Subways and Urban Growth : Evidence from Earth
Gonzalez-Navarro, Marco - 2018
configuration. For the 632 largest cities in the world we construct panel data describing population, measures of centralization …
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Towards a System of Open Cities in China : Home Prices, FDI Flows and Air Quality in 35 Major Cities
Zheng, Siqi - 2009
this growth has been fueled by urban production spurred by world demand. Using a unique cross-city panel data set, we test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463896
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The Dynamics of City Formation
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2008
This paper examines city formation in a country whose urban population is growing steadily over time, with new cities required to accommodate this growth. In contrast to most of the literature there is immobility of housing and urban infrastructure, and investment in these assets is taken on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464877
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Africa's Lagging Demographic Transition : Evidence from Exogenous Impacts of Malaria Ecology and Agricultural Technology
Conley, Dalton - 2007
Much of Africa has not yet gone through a "demographic transition" to reduced mortality and fertility rates. The fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465764
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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration Out of Africa
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2001
prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of 'free' migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …. In Africa today, economic growth has faltered, its economies have fallen further behind the high-wage OECD leaders, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470605
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The Old Age Security Hypothesis and Population Growth
Willis, Robert J. - 1979
In traditional societies it is often argued that parents' desire for old age security in the form of transfers from their children provides an important motive for childbearing. Some doubt has been cast on this "old age security hypothesis" by recent estimates which suggest that the rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478776
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Population Growth, Technological Adoption and Economic Outcomes : A Theory of Cross-Country Differences for the Information Era
Beaudry, Paul - 2001
The object of this paper is to show how population growth, through its interaction with recent technological and organizational developments, can account for many of the cross-country differences in economic outcome observed among industrialized countries over the last 20 years. In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470577
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Measuring Property Rights Institutions
Djankov, Simeon - 2020
, and more broadly with the Demsetz's (1967) approach to property rights institutions. Indeed, we document world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481142
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Infrastructure and Urban Form
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2020
Cities are shaped by transportation infrastructure. Older cities were anchored by waterways. Nineteenth century cities followed the path of streetcars and subways. The 20th century city rebuilt itself around the car. The close connection between transportation and urban form is natural, since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482505
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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization : Evidence from an Historical Experiment
Nunn, Nathan - 2009
introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463493