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Neighborhoods and youth health : everybody needs good neighbors?
Björkegren, Evelina - 2018
There are large differences in health across neighborhoods in Sweden. To try to answer if there is a causal link … exploit the timing of moves and estimate the effect of siblings' different exposure time to neighborhoods. The second approach … variation in neighborhoods and allowing me to study the effect of different neighborhoods on youth health. The findings from the …
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Sprawl and blight
Brueckner, Jan K.; Helsley, Robert W. - 2009
The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...
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A new way of monitoring the quality of urban life
Lora, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew - 2011
A growing number of cities around the world have established systems of monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective and subjective information and attempt to cover a wide variety of topics. This paper introduces a simple method that takes advantage of both types...
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Appropriate economic space for transnational infrastructural projects : gateways, multimodal corridors, and special economic zones
Rimmer, Peter James; Dick, Howard W. - 2010
This study addresses three questions that arise in Asia when formulating, financing, implementing, and maintaining transnational linkages versus purely domestic connections. Firstly, how is optimal economic space to be defined as a useful starting point? Secondly, how can relevant criteria be...
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Do exposures to sagging real estate, subprime or conduits abroad lead to contraction and flight to quality in bank lending at home?
Ongena, Steven; Tümer-Alkan, Günseli; Westernhagen, … - 2015
We investigate how differential exposures by German banks to the US real estate market during the recent financial crisis affect their corporate lending in Germany. Using unique bank-level exposure data, we distinguish between three different types of bank exposures, i.e. direct exposure to the...
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Modeling ICT perceptions and views of urban front liners
Cohen-Blankshtain, Galit; Nijkamp, Peter; Montfort, Kees van - 2003
This paper offers both a conceptual and an operationalmodel that aims to map out the causes and implicationsof ICT perceptions and views of urban policy makersand/or administrative officials (denoted as urban frontliners). This is followed by the presentation of an opera-tional path model, viz....
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The appreciative system of urban ICT policies
Cohen-Blankshtain, Galit; Nijkamp, Peter - 2003
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become important tools topromote and realize a variety of public goals and policies. The growing importance of ICT indaily life, business activities and govemance prompts the need to consider the role of ICTmore explicitIy in urban...
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ICT, the city and society
Cohen-Blankshtain, Galit; Nijkamp, Peter - 2002
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become important tools to promote a variety of public goals and policies. In the past years much attention has been given to the expected social benefits from deploying ICT in different fields (transportation, education, public participation...
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Decentralization and natural disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013
This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses...
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Social factors affecting women's susceptibility to HIV in India
Lall, Priya - 2014
India is the epicenter of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Asia. Previous research indicates that the majority of HIV-positive women in India were infected by their husbands, their only sexual partner, which makes them difficult identify as a high-risk population. This paper seeks to assess social...
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