Sudden and unforeseen events, notably the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored and exacerbated pre-existing urban inequalities. These disruptions have disproportionately affected the most vulnerable sectors of society, thereby further aggravating existing inequalities. Addressing these inequality...

Several indicator and index frameworks have been reported to assess management efficiency and promote transparency, facilitating decision-making and innovation. However, they cannot be applied in cities with limited information, making them impractical. This study proposes a Sustainable Urban...

Karsten Müller and Carlo Schwarz (2022) investigate the impact of Twitter on anti-Muslim hate crimes, demonstrating that higher Twitter usage correlates with increased hate crimes, particularly during Donald Trump's political rise. Their findings highlight social media's ability to amplify...

Ensuring fairness in income distribution is a fundamental requirement in achieving common prosperity. This study employed panel data sourced from 276 cities throughout China, covering the time frame from 2003 to 2022. It sets up a multi-stage difference-in-differences (DID) model to explore the...

One in three cities is at high risk of water stress. The 2030 Water Resources Group (WRG) helps cities prevent, respond to, and recover from water crises. This is done by facilitating partnerships between governments and businesses to manage water more effectively and create resilient and...

This note describes Carbon Monitor Cities 2.0, a new approach to near-real-time monitoring of city-level greenhouse gas emissions from various sectors without the need for local data collection. With support from the City Climate Finance Gap Fund, the World Bank piloted this approach for 11...

This paper provides evidence on a WFH-related hypothesis that has not previously been tested empirically. The hypothesis is that the presence of fully remote workers, for whom residence and work locations are decoupled, should create a tendency toward wage convergence across cities within...

The article studies the impact of urbanization on income inequality in Vietnam, using panel data for 63 provinces and cities in the period 2010-2018. The study applies the fixed-effects regression model estimation method with the standard error of (Driscoll & Kraay, 1998) to test the...

This study provides evidence that natural disasters negatively affect student outcomes, potentially explaining the lower academic achievement of students in rural areas compared to their urban counterparts in developing countries. Using data from the Colombian school census, I estimate a...

Prices for, and the affordability of childcare has received increased attention since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, concerns have been raised about potential differences in childcare costs and access between rural and urban communities. To address these issues, we combine...

Die Bedarfe an neuen Wohnungen und Häusern sind in vielen Städten und Gemeinden sehr hoch und werden nicht durch ein ausreicheichendes Wohnungsangebot gedeckt. Insgesamt werden im Zeitraum 2021 bis 2025 jedes Jahr 372.600 neue Wohnungen benötigt. Zwischen 2021 und 2023 wurden hingegen...

The objective of this paper is to verify the effect of the location of health facilities on amenable and child mortality in the city of Salvador in Brazil. Based on the theory of local public goods, we consider that the provision of public health facilities affects the local health condition,...

We construct an instrumental variable for the Internet penetration rate using China's "8-horizontal-8-longitudinal" optical cable network to identify the impact of the Internet on the agglomeration of producer services in cities. We find that, (i) the Internet promotes the agglomeration of...

Ensuring equity in education is crucial for sustainable development, yet it remains a global challenge. Previous research has extensively explored the spatial equity of educational resources in developed countries; however, there's a lack of adequate studies focused on cities within developing...

The charter school movement encompasses many school models. In Massachusetts in the 2010’s, the site of our study, urban charter schools primarily used “No Excuses” practices, whereas nonurban charters had greater model variety. Using randomized admissions lotteries, we estimate the impact...

Clarifying the impact of cereal trade on urbanization is crucial for enhancing effective food security policies and promoting sustainable urban development. However, the heterogeneous impact of the cereal trade on urbanization remains underexplored. This study applies international trade theory...

Many European cities still suffer from poor air quality and exceed the 2021 WHO air quality guidelines as well as the EU air quality standards. This is the case in particular for fine particulate matter (PM2.5), which is the air pollutant responsible for most of the well documented premature...

Infolge der Neuen Leipzig Charta 2020 und des allgemeinen Wandels hin zur Dienstleistungsgesellschaft gewinnt die kleingewerbliche Wirtschaftsstruktur in Städten wieder deutlich an Relevanz. Unter dem Konzept der "Produktiven Stadt" soll das Kleingewerbe in die bestehenden verschiedenen...

During the Soviet era, closed cities were off-limits to foreigners and unauthorized citizens. After the dissolution, many closed cities opened or were abandoned, but some Russian “ZATOs” (Закрытое административно-территориальное образование)...

This academic research manuscript, conducted under the scholarly journal standards of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), examines the experiences of families residing along the riverbanks of Tumaga River in Zamboanga City, Philippines, regarding urban flooding and their...

Growth in per pupil education spending in the United States was mostly flat until 1918, after which it increased by almost 100% in a brief six-year period. This is the fastest documented increase in per pupil education spending in U.S. history. Using newly digitized biennial data on 386 of the...