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Moretti, Enrico - 2017

Urban areas tend to have much more productive labor and higher salaries than rural areas, and there are vast differences across urban areas. Areas with high salaries and high productivity tend to have employers that invest in much more research and development than areas with low salaries and...

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Urbanization and the Geography of Development

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2017

This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we … herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also …

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Cities of Workers, Children, or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities

Jedwab, Remi Camille - 2019

A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto largely neglected area of research. This paper hypothesizes that cities with more...

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Understanding India's Urban Frontier : What is Behind the Emergence of Census Towns in India?

Mukhopadhyay, Partha - 2017

. Only part of this evolution can be attributed to the gradual urbanization of settlements in the vicinity or larger towns …

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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda

Bundervoet, Tom - 2017

This paper uses the night lights (satellite imagery from outer space) approach to estimate growth in and levels of subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic product is consequential for three reasons. First,...

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The Exceptional Persistence of India's Unorganized Sector

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First, the unorganized sector is large, accounting for...

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States Diverge, Cities Converge : Drivers of Local Growth Catch-Up in India

Li, Yue - 2018

This paper takes a fresh look at growth convergence in India, combining insights from macroeconomics and urban economics. It departs from the existing literature in three ways. First, the paper assesses growth patterns across districts and across places below the district level instead of taking...

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Introducing Behavioral Change in Transportation into Energy/Economy/Environment Models

Schafer, Andreas - 2017

Transportation is vital to economic and social development, but at the same time generates undesired consequences on local, regional, and global scales. One of the largest challenges is the mitigation of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, to which this sector already contributes...

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Inclusive Economic Growth in America?S Cities : What?S the Playbook and the Score?

de Souza Briggs, Xavier - 2017

This paper defines economic inclusion as the ability of all people, including the disadvantaged, to share in economic gains, that is, the conditions that allow for broadly shared prosperity. Beyond the ?right? to access consumption in cities, and beyond relatively standardized safety net...

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The Golden Quadrilateral Highway Project and Urban/Rural Manufacturing in India

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017

increased urbanization of the unorganized sector …

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