We find evidence that the law of one price (LOOP) holds more nearly for country pairs that are within geographic regions than for country pairs that are not. These findings are established using disaggregated consumer price data from 23 countries (including data from eight North American...

Over the past 30 years, the share of adult populations with college degrees increased more in cities with higher initial schooling levels than in initially less educated places. This tendency appears to be driven by shifts in labor demand as there is an increasing wage premium for skilled people...

Over the past four decades, Zimbabwe redistributed vast quantities of arable land to the landless, women and poor communal farmers to reduce inequality. Yet poverty and gender disparity in land ownership have continued to be discernible. It is against this background that this article explores...

We structurally estimate the firm-level frictions across prefectures in China and quantify their aggregate and distributional implications. Based on a general equilibrium model with input and output distortions and migration, we show that the firm-level frictions are less dispersed and less...

Socioeconomics,an ever-changing and growing field of study is significantly shaping modern initiatives within the field while also displaying what the factors that affect the perception of this study are to the public. One of the largest topics that socioeconomics aims to address is the rapidly...

Green technology innovation (GTI) has become a basic force for promoting energy development transformation. China must play the role of the first driving force of GTI to achieve low-carbon sustainable development. Based on the relevant panel data of 30 Mainland Chinese provinces from 2007 to...

We show that differential IT investment across cities has been a key driver of job and wage polarization since the 1980s. Using a novel data set, we establish two stylized facts: IT investment is highest in firms in large and expensive cities, and the decline in routine cognitive occupations is...

The uniform fuel subsidies lead to social and economic distortions including smuggling to neighboring countries with higher fuel prices. However, fuel smuggling can also serve to mitigate poverty in deprived places around the borders. Despite myriad studies on various economic impacts of fuel...

The study examines the regional inequalities in India across 315 districts during 1999/2000–2010/2011. For examining convergence, parametric and non-parametric tests are employed. Findings reveal that absolute and conditional convergences hold for the entire time period. Analysis of...

Using Spanish confidential supervisory data, this paper examines the effect of geographic and business complexity, their interaction and relative importance for banks’ risk, where the degree of complexity stems from the corporate structure of banking groups affiliates. The results show that...