This paper reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the...

We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not increase after the reforms, we find significant evidence that...

This paper uses un-truncated city population data from six countries (the United States, Spain, Italy, France, England and Japan) to illustrate how parametric growth regressions can lead to biased results when testing for Gibrat’s law in city size distributions. The OLS results show...

Con base en los indicadores de necesidades básicas insatisfechas (NBI) y de calidad de vida (ICV), se realiza un análisis espacial de la pobreza en Colombia. El documento pretende establecer si existen evidencias acerca de dependencia espacial en las medidas de la pobreza en los departamentos...

Regional science has a variety of characteristics that distinguish it from its sister social sciences: it works the boundaries of economics, geography, planning studies, and sociology; space is its focus; spatial dependence is a core concern; comparative advantage remains a key concept for...

We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits, quality of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing...

Regional Economics has just entered in its fifties. It is a young discipline compared to other branches of Economics, yet much work has been done in this field. A vast and rich number of theoretical and methodological approaches exist nowadays to incorporate space into logical schemes, laws and...

This paper analyses the growth of American cities, understood as the growth of the population or of the per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all the cities (incorporated places) with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 (1152 cities). The results...

La regione Campania verifica un rilevante squilibrio territoriale con una concentrazione di popolazione e attività sulla fascia costiera, tramutando le economie di agglomerazione in diseconomie da congestione. Lo squilibrio tra aree urbane ed aree interne viene affrontato in sede comunitaria,...

This work presents a simple method for calculating deviations regarding city size and the size which would correspond to it with a Pareto exponent equal to one unit (Zipf’s Law). Recent works show that when considering the entire sample without size restrictions, the estimated Pareto exponent...