We empirically test the positive relationship between market access and wages stated by New Economic Geography. Contrary to most estimation in other countries, we find evidence of significant spatial heterogeneity of this elasticity across Chilean communities.

A GWR approach was used to examine how the relationships between a set of predictors and teenage birth rates (TBR) vary across the US. The findings from the global model show metropolitan counties have higher TBR than nonmetropolitan counties. The GWR model confirmed this association and showed...