This paper develops a general test of factor price equalization that is robust to unobserved regional productivity differences, unobserved region-industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We test relative factor price equalization across...

In this paper, I estimate intergenerational mobility (IGM) in education using cross-sectional data from 91 censuses that span 24 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) over half a century. I measure upward mobility as the likelihood of obtaining at least a primary education for...

A wide variety of policies have spatially concentrated costs and diffuse benefits. In many cases, such policies exhibit severe governance failures. We present a formal model to investigate how these policy failures relate to institutions for resident participation. In the model, residents of two...

We examine the geography of productivity leaders and laggards in the population of Italian joint stock manufacturing companies between 2007 and 2017 and analyse how far such patterns can be related to their financial structure and the provision of financial services in the Italian provinces. To...

In the article the methodological approach of using the analytic coefficient method or evaluation of the competitive environment in the regional banking market is proved. The basic stages of the analysis in accordance to this method`s algorithm are disclosed. The results of numerical calculation...

We investigate the heterogeneous impact of the US federal mortgage interest deduction (MID) on households’ location and tenure decisions. We develop a spatial general-equilibrium model at the county level featuring an endogenous itemization of housing subsidies. We find that repealing the MID...

The precipitation data has been collected at seven meteorological stations in selected study area of Thanjavur and Nagapattinam Districts, Tamil Nadu, India for the years 1999 to 2017. The annual and monthly rainfall patterns and their variability for these locations were assessed, followed by...

In order to determine the inequalities in human development by regions in Romania, the human development index adjusted to inequalities will be used. This index is used when there are inequalities in distribution for each value in part across the population and, especially, when there are...

In this paper we take advantage of an economic shock that generated a substantial exogenous change in the demand for labor in some specific local labor markets. The shock we exploit is the collapse in the oil-price in 2014. We analyze how this shock affected a broad set of outcomes for men and...

Following this introductory chapter which comprises Part I of the book, there are eleven chapters and each of these chapters—written by an expert or by a team of experts — discusses a particular research question or questions about rural-urban dichotomies and spatial development in Asia. For...