To address a debate in the literature concerning the impact of culture on tax compliance, we examine a case where extreme disparities in the two variables coincide, and test for a causal relationship. Our research design isolates the role of culture by focusing on regional differences within a...

This paper provides an analysis of intra-regional disparities in Bulgaria during the EU post-accession period. Bulgaria joined the EU together with Romania on 1 January 2007. In accordance with the EU legislation, six NACE 2 planning regions have been established – three in the southern part...

This study exploits the quasi-random assignment of air pollution changes across counties induced by federally mandated air pollution regulations to identify the impact of particulate matter on property values. Two striking empirical regularities emerge from the analysis. First particulate matter...

The Covid-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on education in Romania and worldwide. Radical measures have been necessary in the field of education, to limit the spread of the virus (like in all the fields affected by the pandemic). One of these measures - the closure of schools, universities...

There are a number of studies in the literature investigating the relationship between leisure participation and place of residence. However, scant attention has been given to the impact of the spatial trajectory – or relocating – on individuals’ leisure activities. The authors of this...

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that geographic inequality in mortality for midlife Americans increased by about 70 percent from 1992 to 2016. This was not simply because states such as New York or California benefited...

We characterize the set of equilibria in a generalized version of the two-region economic geography model that nests the class of models in Allen and Arkolakis (2014) as well as Krugman (1991). We show that the set of (regular) equilibria corresponds to the set of zeros of a function V(x), where...

Previous literature has argued that the introduction of wind power significantly in creases grid congestion. This would potentially impose a negative effect on how regional production is allocated among generators (i.e., regional allocative efficiency). By com paring a U.S. regional electricity...