A környezetvédelmi előírások szigorítása a nagyobb rendszerek létrehozásának kedvez, ezért a kisebb közösségek tagjainak többet kell fizetniük a közszolgáltatások igénybevételéért (például a szennyvízkezelésért vagy a hulladékártalmatlanításért), mint a nagyobb...

This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to quantity, cost, and quality and uses them to assess disparities in access across locations and socio-demographic groups in Minnesota. These measures are distance-based and use...

This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....

This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school district bonds, test scores, and house prices for 29 U.S. states and a research design that exploits close elections with staggered timing, we show that increased...

In China, real estate and the stock market are the two main markets favored by both individual and institutional investors. There is a significant economic link between the two. Therefore, their relationship and long-term and short-term causality can provide good guidance for investors. This...

Regional public universities educate approximately 70 percent of college students at four-year public universities and an even larger share of students from disadvantaged backgrounds. They aim to provide opportunity for education and social mobility, in part by locating near potential students....

Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services offered by PHIs, especially from a spatial...

This paper examines the effects of renovating deteriorated public spaces on local socioeconomic outcomes. We analyze the impacts of a randomized experiment implemented in 28 fragile neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile. Our findings indicate that the renovation of local squares led to increased use...

A tanulmány az osztrák húsipari vertikum piaci viselkedését elemzi az EU-csatlakozást is felölelő 1973 és 1996 közötti időszakban. Arra a kérdésre igyekszik választ találni, hogy a túlnyomórészt oligopoljellegű fogyasztói piac struktúrája nem torzítjae el túlságosan a...

Az élelmiszer-gazdaság évek óta a nemzetgazdaság egyik válságterülete. Az 1990 1993-as évek visszaesését követően 1994-ben azonban mind a mezőgazdaságban, mind az élelmiszeriparban nőtt a bruttó termelési érték. Noha az ágazat továbbra is súlyos gondokkal küszködött, a...