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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A further look

Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013

This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 59 of India's 78 agro-climatic regions from the National Sample Survey. It extends the work of Singh et al. (2003) in two ways. First, it allows for differences in baseline growth performance across...

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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A district-level view

Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013

This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 210 of India's districts, spread across nine states. It provides a finer-grained quantitative analysis of growth patterns than has hitherto been attempted for India. The methodology is that of cross-section...

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Macroeconomic implications of agglomeration

Davis, Morris A.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Whited, Toni M. - 2010

agglomeration on per capita consumption growth. Agglomeration affects growth through the density of economic activity: higher … effect of agglomeration on local wages. The impact of agglomeration on the level of wages is estimated to be 2 percent …. Combined with their model and observed increases in land prices, this estimate implies that agglomeration raises per capita …

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Increasing Returns, Input-Output Linkages, and Technological Leapfrogging

Gallo, Fredrik - 2006

increasing in the benefits of agglomeration. Greater incompatibility between technologies also increases the risk of rejecting …

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Cournot Competition, Market Size Effects and Agglomeration

Gallo, Fredrik - 2005

different regions. Lowering the trade costs beyond a critical level triggers an agglomeration of industry in the larger region …. This process of agglomeration is gradual in nature and trade costs have to be successively lowered for a full …-scale agglomeration to take place. …

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Isolation and development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Ozak, Omer - 2009

This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...

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Does education really cause domestic violence? Revisiting the Turkish data

Akyol, Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling policy as an instrument for schooling, Erten and Keskin (2018, henceforth EK), published in AEJ-Applied Economics, find that women's education increases the psychological violence...

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The research university, invention, and industry: Evidence from German history

Dittmar, Jeremiah E.; Meisenzahl, Ralf R. - 2022

We examine the role of universities in knowledge production and industrial change using historical evidence. Political shocks led to a profound pro-science shift in German universities around 1800. To study the consequences, we construct novel microdata. We find that invention and manufacturing...

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Regional entrepreneurship: Pain or gain for economic growth?

Dienes, Christian; Schneck, Stefan; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen - 2024

This research note examines the relationship between start-up rates and GDP per capita growth in urban and rural regions in Germany. Hereby, we take into account that urban and rural areas differ markedly in their resource endowment for entrepreneurship, which might be responsible for different...

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Urban public works in spatial equilibrium: Experimental evidence from Ethiopia

Franklin, Simon; Imbertand, Clément; Abebe, Girum; … - 2023

This paper evaluates a large urban public works program randomly rolled out across neighborhoods of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. We find that the program increased public employment and reduced private labor supply among beneficiaries and improved local amenities in treated locations. We then combine...

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