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Market potential and distance decay : growth and decline of sectors across locations in urban regions

Klaesson, Johan; Johansson, Börje - 2013

This paper introduces a model which identifies the economic activity of each local economy (location) and observes the time distance between each pair of locations as well as the average time distance between sub locations in each local economy. The study focuses on five categories of firms:...

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U.S. Shadow Economies, Corruption, and Entrepreneurship : State-Level Spatial Relations

Wiseman, Travis - 2015

This paper offers a new theory of the corruption-shadow economy relationship: one that defines it as either collusive – i.e., crony – or non-collusive. Using new estimates of state-level shadow economy size, and data on corruption convictions of U.S. public officials for the 48 contiguous...

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Scales of Regional Income Disparities in the USA, 1955-2003

Yamamoto, Daisaku - 2010

This article examines multiple dimensions of regional per capita income disparities in the USA between 1955 and 2003 with a particular focus on scalar effects. It combines various exploratory analytical tools of spatial disparities, including inequality indices, mobility indices, kernel density...

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Interregional spillovers and urban-rural disparity in U.S. employment growth

Saito, Hisamitsu; Gopinath, Munisamy; Wu, JunJie - 2010

A wide urban-rural disparity is observed in employment growth in the United States. For example, employment growth … examine the sources of U.S. employment growth using the county-level industry data. From an analytical labor-market model, we … derive equilibrium employment growth as a function of growth in neighborhood characteristics and initial conditions such as …

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Treatment-effect identification without parallel paths

Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2018

Imagine a region suffering from a widening income gap that becomes eligible for a generous transfer programme (the treatment). Imagine difference-in-differences analysis (DD) — a before-and-after comparison of the income-level difference — shows that the handicap has risen. Most observers...

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Canary in a coal mine : infant mortality, property values, and tradeoffs associated with mid-20th century air pollution

Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2016

Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit from them. To overcome this challenge, our paper uses a...

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The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States

Clay, Karen - 2019

Surface soil contamination has been long recognized as an important pathway of human lead exposure, and is now a worldwide health concern. This study estimates the causal effects of exposure to lead in topsoil on cognitive ability among 5-year-old children. We draw on individual level data from...

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Land cover and land use indicators : review of available data

Diogo, Vasco; Koomen, Eric - 2016

This paper identifies opportunities to refine OECD’s indicators of land cover and land use and their regular production for all OECD and G20 countries. A comprehensive review is conducted of the available datasets at the global, regional and national levels, including data derived from remote...

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The legacy lead deposition in soils and its impact on cognitive function in preschool-aged children in the United States

Clay, Karen; Portnykh, Margarita; Severnini, Edson R. - 2019

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Expecting Floods : Firm Entry, Employment, and Aggregate Implications

Jia, Ruixue; Ma, Xiao; Xie, Victoria Wenxin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Flood events and flood risk have been increasing in the past few decades and have important consequences for the economy. Using county-level and ZIP-code-level data from the United States during 1998-2018, we document that (1) increased flood risk has a large negative impact on firm entry,...

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