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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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innovation economics and development policy. We study the economic transition of the PR China from an agrarian country to a high … provinces and autonomous regions of the P.R. China, we also show that there are systematic relations between micro-level and …
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more traditional. Dispersion and decentralization of industries to achieve lower income inequality between provinces would …
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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892172
Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …
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on economic activity (night lights and GDP), together with the lack of significant in uence on patterns of inequality …
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African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …
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This chapter surveys research on social capital. We explore the concepts that motivate the social capital literature, efforts to formally model social capital using economic theory, the econometrics of social capital, and empirical studies of the role of social capital in various socioeconomic...
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In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential … distributive data consistent across countries and over time (World Income Inequality Database companion datasets). We show how the … concentration of income at the bottom and top, rather than overall inequality, is negatively associated with human development. This …
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-income economies. In particular, since the beginning of the growth slowdown of the economy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in …
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