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Herd effects or migration networks? The location choice of Mexican immigrants in the US

Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1) network externalities and (2) herd behavior. We advance … network and herd effects in our empirical work. In order to distinguish between herd and network externalities, we use the … Mexican Migration Project data. Our empirical results show that both network externalities and herds have significant effects …

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The Supply Side of the Digital Divide: Is There Equal Availability in the Broadband Internet Access Market?

Prieger, James E. - 2002

The newest dimension of the Digital Divide is access to broadband (high-speed) Internet service. Using comprehensive U.S. data covering all forms of access technology (chiefly DSL and cable modem), I look for evidence of unequal broadband availability in areas with high concentrations of poor,...

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Public housing units vs. housing vouchers: accessibility, local public goods, and welfare

Sarpça, Sinan; Leung, Charles Ka Yui; Yilmaz, Kuzey - 2010

A perennial debate worldwide over housing aid policy focuses on whether the government should provide housing vouchers or subsidized public housing units. To complement the empirically- dominated literature, this paper builds a general equilibrium model that merges urban land use (monocentric...

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Schelling's spatial proximity model of segregation revisited

Pancs, Romans; Vriend, Nicolaas J. - 2003

Schelling [1969, 1971a, 1971b, 1978] presented a microeconomic model showing how an integrated city could unravel to a rather segregated city, notwithstanding relatively mild assumptions concerning the individual agents' preferences, i.e., no agent preferring the resulting segregation. We...

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Where Should the Elderly Live and Who Should Pay for their Care? A Study in Demographics and Geographical Economics

Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2007

There is a rich literature analyzing the problems that will arise as the share of elderly and retired in the population increases in the near future. However, the locational decisions among the elderly as well as their implications in terms of taxes/transfers and of allocation of...

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Spatial effects of willingness-to-pay: The case of two nuclear risks

Zweifel, Peter; Schneider, Yves; Wyss, Christian - 2007

This paper examines the spatial dimension of marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for reduction of nuclear risks through increased insurance coverage. The effect of distance from a nuclear power plant on individuals' MWP is ambiguous. MWP is expected to decrease with distance because the risk of...

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All-Pay auctions with negative prize externalities: Theory and experimental evidence

Sacco, Dario; Schmutzler, Armin - 2008

The paper characterizes the mixed-strategy equilibria in all-pay auctions with endogenous prizes that depend positively on own effort and negatively on the effort of competitors. Such auctions arise naturally in the context of investment games, lobbying games, and promotion tournaments. We also...

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The all-pay auction with complete information and identity-dependent externalities

Klose, Bettina; Kovenock, Dan - 2013

-pay auction with complete information and identity-dependent externalities. This condition shows that the generic equilibrium of … the standard all-pay auction is robust to the introduction of small identity-dependent externalities. In general, however …, the presence of identity-dependent externalities invalidates well-established qualitative results concerning the set of …

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Does supporting passenger railways reduce road traffic externalities?

Lalive, Rafael; Luechinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - 2013

increases in service frequency reduce road traffic externalities. We exploit differences in service frequency growth by …

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External effects of education on earnings: Swedish evidence using matched employee-establishment data

Isacsson, Gunnar - 2005

This paper provides an empirical investigation of externalities from education in Sweden in an earnings equation … also investigates the coherence of the evidence with respect to the idea that educational externalities arise through face … of the basic cross-sectional model. The cross-sectional models suggest, in general, that externalities are positive and …

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