This study examines the effects of the extension of compulsory schooling from 5 to 8 years in Turkey in 1997 – which involved substantial investment in school infrastructure – on schooling outcomes and, in particular, on the equality of these outcomes between men and women, and urban and...

Da urbane Orte die primären Zielorte für Zuwandernde sind, hat sich die Forschung bislang mit wenigen Ausnahmen auf den städtischen Bereich konzentriert. Folglich gibt es kaum systematisch und überregional vergleichende Forschung zum Leben von Geflüchteten im Stadt-Land-Vergleich. Noch...

This paper explores the spatial concentration of 120 service industries in India's rural and urban areas, covering 33.60 million establishments using Economic census (2013) data at the district level. Besides, this study uses a cartogram map to examine knowledge-intensive business services...

This article proposes that objective food price risk differs between rural and urban areas of infrastructure-poor economies characterised by spatially concentrated patterns of foodgrains storage. This difference implies an urban bias having adverse welfare effects for peasants who seasonally...