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Geography, Economic Policy, and Regional Development in China

Demurger, Sylvie - 2002

Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces …

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Organizing a Kingdom

Angelucci, Charles; Meraglia, Simone; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We develop a framework that examines the organizational challenges faced by central rulers governing large territories, where administrative power needs to be delegated to local elites. We describe how economic change can motivate rulers to empower different elites and emphasize the interaction...

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Regional Transfers

Corbi, Raphael - 2014

We exploit a series of discontinuities, at several population thresholds, in the allocation mechanism of federal transfers to municipal governments in Brazil to identify the causal effect of municipal spending on local labor markets, using a 'fuzzy' regression discontinuity design. Our estimates...

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Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan - 2014

In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that their...

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Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2012

We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary economic performance, as...

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Regions, Resources, and Economic Geography : Sources of U.S. Regional Comparative Advantage, 1880-1987

Kim, Sukkoo - 1997

This paper estimates the Rybczynski equation matrix for the twenty two-digit U.S." manufacturing industries for various years between 1880 and 1987. As predicted by the standard" general equilibrium theory of interregional trade, the regression estimates show that a consistent" set of factor...

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Self-Defeating Regional Concentration

Matsuyama, Kiminori - 1993

We present a simple model of a two-region economy in which undesirable concentration may occur. With freedom to choose where to live, individuals in this economy concentrate into one region in their pursuit of better life, and end up becoming worse off. We characterize the conditions under which...

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Spatial Patterns of Development : A Meso Approach

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2017

Over the last two decades, the literature on comparative development has moved from country-level to within-country analyses. The questions asked have expanded, as economists have used satellite images of light density at night and other big spatial data to proxy for development at the desired...

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Regional income

Hanna, Frank Allan (contributor) - 1957

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The Fractured-Land Hypothesis

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2020

. Diamond (1997) famously argued that "fractured land" was responsible for China's tendency toward political unification and … state formation in Eurasia. We find that either topography or productive land alone is sufficient to account for China … productivity in Northern China plays a central role in our simulations. We discuss how our results map into observed historical …

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