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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A further look

Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013

This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 59 of India's 78 agro-climatic regions from the National Sample Survey. It extends the work of Singh et al. (2003) in two ways. First, it allows for differences in baseline growth performance across...

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Regional inequality in India in the 1990s: A district-level view

Singh, Nirvikar; Kendall, Jake; Jain, R. K.; Chander, Jai - 2013

This paper examines changes in regional inequality in India in the 1990s, using data for 210 of India's districts, spread across nine states. It provides a finer-grained quantitative analysis of growth patterns than has hitherto been attempted for India. The methodology is that of cross-section...

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Isolation and development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded; Ozak, Omer - 2009

This paper exploits cross-country variation in the degree of geographical isolation, prior to the advent of sea-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe. The empirical investigation establishes that prehistoric...

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Macroeconomic implications of agglomeration

Davis, Morris A.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Whited, Toni M. - 2010

agglomeration on per capita consumption growth. Agglomeration affects growth through the density of economic activity: higher … effect of agglomeration on local wages. The impact of agglomeration on the level of wages is estimated to be 2 percent …. Combined with their model and observed increases in land prices, this estimate implies that agglomeration raises per capita …

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Increasing Returns, Input-Output Linkages, and Technological Leapfrogging

Gallo, Fredrik - 2006

increasing in the benefits of agglomeration. Greater incompatibility between technologies also increases the risk of rejecting …

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Cournot Competition, Market Size Effects and Agglomeration

Gallo, Fredrik - 2005

different regions. Lowering the trade costs beyond a critical level triggers an agglomeration of industry in the larger region …. This process of agglomeration is gradual in nature and trade costs have to be successively lowered for a full …-scale agglomeration to take place. …

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Taxonomy of causes, impacts and policy responses to the food price crisis in the Andean region

Cuesta, José; Jaramillo, Fidel - 2009

This paper analyzes the causes, effects and policy alternatives associated with the recent international food price crisis in the Andean region. Additionally, the document makes a first approach to the policy options utilized to confront the crisis, discussing the mix of policies and their...

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Ethnicity and human capital accumulation in urban Mexico

Ñopo, Hugo; Winder, Natalia - 2008

This study analyzes social mobility and human capital accumulation among ethnic minorities in Mexican urban areas, exploring changes in educational attainment and labor market status and using panel data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MFxLS). The results indicate important ethnic...

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Partner search and demographics: The marriage squeeze in India

Sautmann, Anja - 2011

Abstract. If women marry younger than men, increased population growth causes a surplus of women in the marriage market. This paper introduces search frictions into a matching model with transferable utility and age-dependent match payoffs to study if this so-called marriage squeeze has caused a...

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Heterogeneous convergence

Young, Andrew T.; Higgins, Matthew J.; Levy, Daniel - 2013

We use U.S. county-level data to estimate convergence rates for 22 individual states. We find significant heterogeneity. E.g., the California estimate is 19.9 percent and the New York estimate is 3.3 percent. Convergence rates are essentially uncorrelated with income levels.

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