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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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Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the Twentieth-Century United States : 2019 Presidential Address for the Economic History Association

Fishback, Price V. - 2020

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 "rise...

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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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Contemporary State Policies and Intergenerational Income Mobility

Lefgren, Lars J. - 2019

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 - 2005

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 - 2011

/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, Ejaz - 2011

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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Redistribution Through Public Employment : The Case of Italy

Alesina, Alberto - 1999

This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two sets of facts. This first is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as...

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Height and Per Capita Income

Steckel, Richard H. - 1982

As an aid to interpreting the results of height-by-age studies this paper investigates the relationship between average height and per capita income. The relationships among income, nutrition, medical care, and height at the individual level suggest that average height is nonlinearly related to...

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Frictional Sorting

Liang, Wenquan - 2020

In many countries around the world, migration costs and housing supply restrictions interact with each other and combine to restrict workers' location decisions. Using an equilibrium sorting model and rich micro data from China, we evaluate the impacts of these dual constraints on workers'...

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