This article explores how improvements in the understanding of socioeconomic characteristics and their interactions across small geographical areas could enable more efficient resource allocations to counteract the spread of a disease. Our empirical analysis focusses on COVID-19 infection rates...

This study investigates the determinants of provincial public health expenditures for Turkey, employing spatial econometrics models. To this end, the panel data at NUTS3 level for the period 2009-2019 have been employed. The exploratory spatial data analysis suggests that real GDP per capita,...

Cities as the human habitat of the 21st century will have to face an increasingly amount of climate change related risks. More extreme weather events, hot spells and increasing air pollution already have widespread impacts on people, their health and their well-being. Urban vegetation is one...

This study examined regional differences in students’ academic achievement, well-being, and motivation as well as factors explaining systematic variation. We used the complete representative German PIRLS 2016 data (N = 3,959 fourth-grade students, mean(age)= 10.34 years; 49% girls; 71% from a...

Why are gender wage gaps lower in northern than in southern states of India, despite comparable (and in some respects higher) measures of gender equality in the south? In addressing this question, I develop a model of social norms that stigmatize women’s wage work and generate lower rates of...

This paper evaluates the influence of the maximum-allowed floor area ratio (FAR) on the spatial size of Brazilian cities. We built a novel database on building height restrictions for the 325 largest cities in the country and combined it with recent satellite data. Our estimations show that, as...

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...

Society’s transition toward more sustainable energy sources is well underway. But substantially reducing the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity, to power vehicles, and to manufacture the stuff of everyday life will profoundly disrupt the communities that currently dedicate themselves...

Concerns are mounting over the potential for weak future growth as the Korean economy faces a wide range of structural issues including an aging society, a crisis in key regional industries, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to these concerns, the Korean government has established innovation growth...

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...