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Urban-Biased Growth : A Macroeconomic Analysis

Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Since 1980, US wage growth has been fastest in large cities. Empirically, we show that most of this urban-biased growth reflects wage growth at large Business Services firms, which are also the most intensive users of information and communications technology (ICT) capital in the US economy. We...

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Do Borders Matter for Social Capital? Economic Growth and Civic Culture in U.S. States and Canadian Provinces

Helliwell, John F. - 1996

The paper first assesses regional and ethnic group differences in social trust and memberships in both Canada and the United States. The ethnic categories people choose to describe themselves are as important as regional differences, but much less important than education, in explaining...

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Trends in Regional Inequality in China

Jian, Tianlun - 1996

Several recent studies have examined the tendency of regions within a nation to exhibit long-term convergence in per … capita income levels. Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991, 1992, 1995) have found a tendency towards convergence among the U … convergence among the provinces of China during the period 1952-1993. We find that real income convergence of provinces in China …

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Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1995

We examine the relationship between urban characteristics in 1960 and urban growth (income and population) between 1960 and 1990. Our major findings are that income and population growth move together and both types of growth are (1) positively related to initial schooling, (2) negatively...

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Congressional Distributive Politics and State Economic Performance

Levitt, Steven D. - 1994

This paper tests several theories of the effects of congressional representation on state economic growth. States that were represented by very senior Democratic congressmen grew more quickly during the 1953-1990 period than states that were represented by more junior congressional delegations....

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Endogenous Growth, Public Capital, and the Convergence of Regional Manufacturing Industries

Hulten, Charles R. - 1993

after World War II. The convergence hypothesis suggests that the success of the South in catching up to the Northeast and … technological convergence explains the regional evolution of U.S. manufacturing industry, or that endogenous growth was an important …

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Solow and the States : Capital Accumulation, Productivity and Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1992

National, state, and local policy makers have increasingly focused their attention on policies toward economic growth, especially efforts to raise the rate of investment. Recent studies of economic growth have raised a debate over the role played by the investment rate in the long-run...

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Regional Growth and Migration : A Japan-U.S. Comparison

Barro, Robert J. - 1992

Do poor economies grow faster than rich ones? This important economic question (which we call [beta]-convergence) is … of convergence in both countries: poor prefectures and states grow faster. We also find that there is intraregional as … well as interregional convergence. We analyze the cross sectional standard deviation across prefectures and states. We find …

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Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing

Hornbeck, Richard - 2019

We examine impacts of market integration on the development of American manufacturing, as railroads expanded through the latter half of the 19th century. Using new county-by-industry data from the Census of Manufactures, we estimate substantial impacts on manufacturing productivity from relative...

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Persistence and Path Dependence in the Spatial Economy

Allen, Treb - 2020

How much of the spatial distribution of economic activity today is determined by history rather than by geographic fundamentals? And if history matters for the distribution, does it also affect overall efficiency? This paper develops a tractable theoretical and empirical framework that aims to...

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