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Balboni, Clare A.; Shapiro, Joseph S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

How do environmental goods and policies shape spatial patterns of economic activity? How will climate change modify these impacts over the coming decades? How do agglomeration, commuting, and other spatial forces and policies affect environmental quality? We distill theoretical and empirical...

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Spatial Dynamics

Desmet, Klaus; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We examine the recent literature that studies the spatial distribution of economic activity across both space and time. We discuss the methodological advances enabling the incorporation of dynamic forces of economic activity--such as endogenous innovation, forward-looking location choices,...

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Place-Based Economic Development and Long-Run Firm Employment and Sales : Evidence from American Indian Reservations

Aguilar, Joseph A.; Akee, Randall; Mykerezi, Elton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine how one of the largest U.S. place-based economic development programs, the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988, with annual revenues in excess of \$40 billion, affects local firm total employment and sales through direct channels and through IGRA's effects on adjacent...

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Internal Migration and the Spatial Reorganization of Agriculture

Madhok, Raahil; Noack, Frederik; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

This paper studies how agricultural production responds to the loss of agricultural labor during the process of urbanization and structural transformation. Using household microdata from India and exogenous variation in migration opportunities induced by urban income shocks, we show that...

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A Comprehensive GIS Database for China's Surface Transport Network with Implications for Transport and Socioeconomics Research

Davis, Steven J.; Qian, Meijun; Zeng, Wen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We build a granular Geographic Information System (GIS) database that covers China's national highways, modern … the database and its construction, we characterize the development of China's surface transport network. Overall network … development. Because motorway access is vital to local economic development in China, this finding raises the need to re …

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Improved Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Pollution and Temperature Extremes

Barwick, Panle Jia; Donaldson, Dave; Li, Shanjun; Lin, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid …

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Melitz Meets Lewis : The Impacts of Roads on Structural Transformation and Businesses

Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Lu, Jianyu; Qian, Wei; Ren, Lixia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

labor from local agricultural production leading to more firms. Using major highway programs in India and China, we find …

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Derisking Real Estate in China's Hybrid Economy

Xiong, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This article examines the risks faced by China's real estate sector within its distinct hybrid economy, which combines … gives the government a strong commitment and the ability to delay a real estate crisis. However, China's real estate risk is …

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High-Speed Rail and China's Electric Vehicle Adoption Miracle

Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming; Wang, Long; Yang, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Using China's expansion of the high-speed rail system (HSR) as a quasi-natural experiment, we analyze the comprehensive …, the expansion of HSR can account for up to one third of the increase in EV market share and EV sales in China during our …

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Cities, Productivity, and Trade

Marin, Alvaro Garcia - 2020

We document a novel stylized fact: Using data for several countries, we show that export activity is disproportionately concentrated in larger cities - even more so than overall economic activity. We account for this fact by marrying elements of international trade and economic geography. We...

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