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This paper constructs a two-region endogenous growth model, where economic geography and public infrastructures play a …, industrial geography and spatial income distribution. An improvement of infrastructures that helps decrease transaction costs … income between the two regions. An improvement in infrastructure in the poor region has the exact reverse effect. In this …
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externalities in high technology industries in the metropolitan area, and that there also exist geographic knowledge spillovers … across metropolitan boundaries. In addition, this study finds that high technology specialization externalities are more … localized than high technology diversity externalities. …
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incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of … Mariathasan demonstrate that systemic risk issues are now endemic everywhere—in supply chains, pandemics, infrastructure, ecology …
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incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of … Mariathasan demonstrate that systemic risk issues are now endemic everywhere—in supply chains, pandemics, infrastructure, ecology …
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study the geography of knowledge spillovers using patent citations, and found that knowledge spillovers are strongly …
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I report new evidence for localized knowledge spillovers identified by within-patent variations in the geographic matching rates of citations added by inventors and citations added by examiners. Evaluated at the mean citation lag, inventor citations are 20 percent more likely than examiner...
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Kenneth Boulding’s (1962) notion of a loss-of-strength gradient (LSG) has been successfully applied to explain the military reach of states. The capability of a country (a.k.a. its national strength) is largest at its home base and declines as the nation moves away. Capable states are...
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This paper provides an overview of some of the uses of geographic information systems (GIS) in public health management … a number of applications of GIS in epidemiology and healthcare research in the developing world, followed by an analysis … comparison of distribution of diarrheal disease incidence and distribution of households with sanitary infrastructure and safe …
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Autism prevalence has risen dramatically over the past two decades in California. Although often suggested to have been crucial to the rise of autism, environmental and social contextual drivers of diagnosis have not been extensively examined. Identifying the spatial patterning of autism cases...
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research designs. While this is a welcome trend, it necessitates geographic information systems (GIS) skills and imposes new …
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