Policymakers and scholars have directed renewed attention to the law’s contributions to producing economic inequality, but the legal dimensions of geographic inequality have received much less scrutiny. At its core, geographic inequality is a function of how the national income gets spatially...

Who we act pro-socially towards and want to redistribute to is at the heart of many economic and political questions, and a key piece is to understand who individuals consider is in their in-group. Through two complementary experiments on charitable giving, one with Mexican students and one in...

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...

This study analyses the critical role of core infrastructure in the regional development of Pakistan. The Dynamic Fixed-Effect Spatial Durbin Model has been used for the provincial data during 1991 to 2020. The spatial dependence parameter is positive and statistically highly significant,...

We develop a unified stochastic frontier model which controls for the local spatial correlation and the global factor dependence as well as parameter heterogeneity, simultaneously. We then propose the regional productivity network analysis to examine the diffusion impacts of the capital...

This paper employs k-means clustering, a multidimensional pattern recognition method, to categorize countries using information from five Varieties of Democracy indices. K-means country clusters are similar but not entirely identical to both k-medians clusters and arbitrary groups formed using...