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Top lights : bright cities and their contribution to economic development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
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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Top Lights - Bright Cities and their Contribution to Economic Development
Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018
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/10012018102
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The Speeds of Europe - An Analysis of Regional Disparities Across the EU
Fulterer, Ruth; Lungu, Ioana - In: Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (2018) 2, pp. 169-190
, across the core Member States, we observe a dramatic increase in employment disparities that have been pushing inequality … upwards over the last decade. On a regional level, aggregate within-country inequality is determined by employment differences … between regions. Nevertheless, there are large increases in inequality as regards the distribution of regional productivity in …
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Crime, Inequality and Subsidized Housing: Evidence from South Africa
Manea, Roxana; Piraino, Patrizio; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases …
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Crime, inequality and subsidized housing : evidence from South Africa
Manea, Roxana; Patrizio, Piraino; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases …
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My journey through the history of development economics
Thorbecke, Erik - 2018
African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …
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Chapter 26. Social Capital
Durlauf, Steven N.; Fafchamps, Marcel - 2005
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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Inequality and human development : the role of different parts of the income distribution
Castells-Quintana, David; Gradín, Carlos; Royuela, Vicente - 2022
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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Globalization and regional income inequality: Evidence from within China
Wan, Guanghua; Lu, Ming; Chen, Zhao - 2004
concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper discusses …China’s recent accession to the WTO is expected to accelerate its integration into the world economy, which aggravates … China’s globalization process and estimates an income generating function, incorporating trade and FDI variables. It then …
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China's regional inequality in innovation capability, 1995 - 2004
Fan, Peilei; Wan, Guanghua - 2006
capability in China. It is found that at the regional level, China's inequality in innovation capability increased from 1995 to … 2004. At the provincial level, the inequality decreased from 1995 to 2000, but increased from 2000 to 2004. Location … inequality in innovation capability. Unbalanced development in high-tech parks exerts a growing explanatory power in driving …
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