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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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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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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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Inter-state dynamics of invention activities, 1930 - 2000
Co, Catherine Y.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005
We study the dynamics of the cross-section distribution of patents per capita for the 48 continental U.S. states from 1930 to 2000 using a discrete-state Markov chain. We test for and find evidence in favor of the (knowledge) convergence hypothesis as we find that the distribution of patents is...
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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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Matching frictions and distorted beliefs: Evidence from a job fair experiment
Abebe, Girum; Caria, Stefano A.; Fafchamps, Marcel; … - 2023
We evaluate the impacts of a randomized job-fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model;...
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