The implementation of fiscal decentralization in the last two decades has produced various findings: positive and negative. Several studies have evaluated fiscal decentralization as an ideal system so that development goals can be accustomed to satisfy the local’s preferences, so that the...

This study aims to analyze the geographical patterns of aid in the 21st century for 38 countries in sub-Sahara Africa and to identify the spatial exclusion of aid at the regional level. We calculated the spatial exclusion level (SEL) of aid by comparing the multidimensional poverty index (MPI)...

In this paper, we use provincial panel data on China for the 2002-19 period to conduct a spatial autocorrelation analysis of household saving rates as well as a dynamic panel analysis of the determinants of household saving rates using a spatial Durbin model. To summarize our main findings, we...

In this paper we explore how hominin behavior responds to the distribution of resources in territorial conflict. We develop an economic model to organize the findings of primatologists, isolating how resource skew and variance affect territorial ranges, as well as how they interact with unequal...

This article examines whether Hispanics achieve spatial equity with Whites through homeownership by comparing the neighborhoods of recent Hispanic and White homebuyers using the 2018 Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data coupled with neighborhood information from the Decennial Census and 2014–2018...

We develop an agent-based computational model for the spatial spread of an epi- demic to explore how the inter-regional variability in vaccine coverage a§ects the global epidemic size as well as the individual risk of infection. Our agent-based model imple- ments a standard SIR model of...

China’s demographic changes have important global economic and geopolitical implications. Yet, our understanding of such transitions at the micro-spatial scale remains limited due to spatial inconsistency of the census data caused by administrative boundary adjustments. To fill this gap, we...

We study how fiscal policy affects the transmission of monetary policy using the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 as a natural experiment. The TCJA capped deductions for state and local taxes, (SALT), and increased the standard deduction, causing many households to switch from itemizing to...

The inequality-economic development nexus has been the focus of a number of research undertakings in the past. Nonetheless, the variations in regional dynamics are still arguably understudied. Employing semi-parametric regressions, this research finds that the classical hypothesis of Kuznets is...

Demanding state regulatory schemes render the operation of cannabis businesses an expensive endeavor and create an urgent need for reliable sources of cash. Historically, the federal ban on cannabis has hindered the industry’s fundraising efforts, but larger cannabis companies have begun to...