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Lessmann, Christian - 2013 - This version: January 2013

This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level re- gional...

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The geography of inequality : differences and determinants of wage and income inequality across US metros

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Regional inequality and internal conflict : conference paper

Lessmann, Christian - 2014 - This version: January 2013

This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal conflicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level regional...

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Essays in public economics and political economy

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The link between regional temperature and regional income : econometric evidence with sub-national data

Greßer, Christina; Meierrieks, Daniel; Stadelmann, David - 2020

We study the effect of temperature on economic development on the sub-national level, employing cross-sectional data … temperature-income relationship, our setting allows us to exploit sub-national heterogeneity through the inclusion of country … fixed effects and mitigate omitted variable bias. We find no negative relationship between regional temperature and four …

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Regional convergence at the county level : the role of commuters

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Spatial inequality, geography and economic activity

Achten, Sandra; Lessmann, Christian - 2019

We study the effect of spatial inequality on economic activity. Given that the relationship is highly simultaneous in nature, we use exogenous variation in geographic features to construct an instrument for spatial inequality, which is independent from any man-made factors. Inequality measures...

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Regional inequalities in African political economy: theory, conceptualization and measurement, and political effects

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Geographies of socio-economic inequality

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022

Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...

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Temper and temperature : the missing link of climate on armed conflicts

Shiva, Mehdi; Kwiatkowski, Andrzej - 2014

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