literature regarding the relationship between the size and location of population groups: Hypotheses based on pure population … mass, on distances, on population concentrations, and some residual state-level characteristics. The hypotheses are tested …

conventional methods. The method is illustrated with an application focusing on the allocation of global land resource use under …, the range of land conversion is considerably smaller for the dynamic stochastic model as compared to deterministic … scenario analysis. The scenario analysis can thus significantly overstate the magnitude of expected land conversion under …

misallocation in services, whereas land is the determining factor in manufacturing. Third, the paper expands our earlier work on the …

analysis is the hypothesis that land misallocation might be an important determinant of financial misallocation (for example …, because of the role of land as collateral against loans). Using district-industry variations, the analysis finds evidence to …

better allocation of output and factors of production is associated with greater output per worker. Misallocation of land …

typically correlated with the population size of an administrative area. A regression analysis shows that, controlling for … population, the correlation between the bottom 40 and World Bank funding switches sign and becomes significant and negative on … regions. Hence, the significant and positive correlation in the estimations without controlling for population suggests that …