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Does education really cause domestic violence? Revisiting the Turkish data
Akyol, Pelin; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021
women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373849
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Heterogeneous convergence
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2013
We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335973
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Federal, state, and local governments: Evaluating their separate roles in US growth
Higgins, Matthew J.; Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel - 2008
We use US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the extent of government employment at three levels: federal, state and local. We find that increases in federal, state and local government employments are all negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336011
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Growth and Convergence across the US: Evidence from County-Level Data
Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew T. - 2003
nonlinear depending on the years of education considered; and (v) large presences of both finance, insurance and real estate … in the education industry is negatively correlated with economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204733
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Sigma Convergence Versus Beta Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2003
This note outlines (i) why σ-convergence may not accompany β-convergence; (ii) cites evidence of β-convergence in the U.S.; (iii) demonstrates that σ-convergence does not hold across the U.S., or within most U.S. states; and (iv) demonstrates the robustness of this finding to increases in mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204736
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Heterogeneity in Convergence Rates and Income Determination across U.S. States: Evidence from County-Level Data
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2004
unrelated to obtaining some college education, and then positively related to four-year degree or more attainment. Also, finance …, insurance and real estate industry and entertainment industry are positively correlated with growth, while education industry is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204740
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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data
Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew J. - 2004
find that (i) the percentage of a county’s population with less than a high-school education is negatively correlated with … percentage obtaining some college education has no clear relationship with economic growth but (iv) the percentage that obtains a … county’s population obtaining a bachelor degree or higher level of college education has a positive relationship with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204744
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Growth and Convergence across the US: Evidence from County-Level Data
Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew T. - 2005
correlates with growth while education employment negatively correlates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204752
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Sigma Convergence Versus Beta Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data
Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2006
In this paper we outline (i) why sigma-convergence may not accompany beta-convergence, (ii) discuss evidence of beta-convergence in the U.S., and (iii) use U.S. county-level data containing over 3,000 cross-sectional observations to demonstrate that sigma-convergence has not occurred at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204753
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Is there an income convergence across provinces of Turkey?
Öz, Sumru - 2017
In this paper, whether there is a convergence of per capita incomes across Turkish provinces during 2004-2014 period is … examined following the availability of per capita incomes of Turkish provinces for this period as of December 2016. Considering … that the attitude towards, especially girls' education differs to a large extent between eastern and western regions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060229