Search Results - subject_exact:"Urbanization"

Andersson, Jonatan; Ulväng, Göran - 2026

This article studies the role of disamenity work in the rural sector in the shift in the urban sector and growth of cities. We focus on the effects of dairy farming, a sector with famously harsh working conditions, in Sweden around the turn of the twentieth century on rural-urban migration,...

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Structural transformation and the dynamics of well-being : evidence from a global panel

Morales Vergara, José Roberto; Balladares Ponguillo, … - 2026

Structural transformation is widely considered a key driver of economic development; however, its contribution to multidimensional well-being remains unclear. This study analyzes the relationship between structural transformation and well-being using an unbalanced panel of 150 countries from...

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Urban sprawl and rurbanization : implications for dietary quality in Malawi

Kafotokoza, Joshua; Ameye, Hannah; Qaim, Matin - 2026

Urbanization contributes to changing food environments in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the implications for people's diets and nutrition remain insufficiently understood. Using four waves of nationally representative panel data from Malawi (2010-2019), we examine how local urbanization is associated...

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Spatial planning system in the Republic of Korea

An, Yehyun; Suh-Kyung Shin, Jeniffer; Kim, Eunhwa - 2025

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Rural modernization and livelihood transitions in Peri-Urban Vietnam : lessons from new rural development in Dai Loc

Do, Thinh Duy - 2026

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Cities in Amazonia : people and nature in harmony

2025

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Digital roots or digital routes? : broadband expansion and the rural-urban migration in China

Ma, Shuang; Mu, Ren - 2025

This study investigates broadband internet's impact on rural-urban migration in China, using the Universal Broadband and Telecommunication Services pilot program as a quasi-experimental setting. Analyzing China Household Finance Survey data (2013-2021) through difference-in-differences...

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Inequality, urbanization, and the Kuznets process : evidence from India's annual periodic labour force surveys

S Chandrasekhar; Naraparaju, Karthikeya; Sharma, Ajay - 2026

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Inequality, urbanization, and the Kuznets process : evidence from India’s annual Periodic Labour Force Surveys

S Chandrasekhar; Naraparaju, Karthikeya; Sharma, Ajay - 2025

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Impacts of city life on nutrition : evidence from resettlement lotteries in China

Leng, Ganxiao; Qiu, Huanguang; Filipski, Mateusz - 2025

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Structural transformation under vertically divided authority in Harare

Mlilo, Mfundo; Mahofa, Godfrey - 2025

This paper explores structural transformation in Harare, a city characterized by vertically divided authority. Harare's unique governance structure can offer invaluable insights into the role of political determinants in structural change in African cities. We aim to demonstrate how political...

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Building net-zero African cities : decarbonization and structural transformation

Ouattara, Bazoumana - 2025

This paper examines how African cities can reconcile rapid urbanization and development imperatives with urgent decarbonization goals through structural transformation. It begins by mapping key sources of urban carbon - energy poverty, inefficient buildings, poor planning, transport systems,...

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Building net-zero African cities: Decarbonization and structural transformation

Ouattara, Bazoumana - 2025

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The urban learning premium : evidence from Peru

Fagernäs, Sonja; Pelkonen, Panu; Pozo Segura, Juan … - 2025

We examine the urban learning and schooling premium in Peru using two approaches: 1) estimating the effect of local population density on pupils' value-added in learning between grades two to eight, 2) quasi-experimental Census estimations on the effects of the duration of urban exposure in...

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Internal migration over the course of urbanization in developing countries

Lerch, Mathias; Du, Wenxiu; Beckendorff, Dorothee - 2025

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Urbanization without structural transformation? : a case study of the Nairobi metropolitan area

Magero, Joshua - 2025

Using data from Kenya's 2016 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises survey, the 2017 Census of Establishments, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions, this paper examines the patterns of structural transformation as well as its drivers and barriers in Nairobi. The findings show that...

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Urbanization and the industrialization of agriculture

Dong, Zekuan; Schaefer, K. Aleks - 2025

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Economic growth, urbanization, and transport emissions : an investigation of elasticity-based decoupling metrics in the Gulf

Melhim, Sadiq H.; Isaifan, Rima J. - 2025

Transport is among the fastest-growing contributors to carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, where rapid urbanization, population growth, and high mobility demand continue to shape energy use. This study aims to quantify the extent to which economic growth...

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Influence of urbanization on carbon emission rights : an analysis based on an enhanced translog production function and refined urban boundaries

Li, Yihan; Zhang, Linjuan; Xu, Yue; Li, Weiyu; Tian, Lixin - 2025

This study evaluates urbanization's impact on carbon emission rights value in China using translog production functions and carbon shadow pricing models. Firstly, the MK trend test and decoupling analysis divided the city into four carbon emission pressure types, where an enhanced translog...

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Urban primacy and slum prevalence in Latin American and Caribbean countries in the 1990-2020 period

Obaco, Moisés; Díaz-Sánchez, Juan Pablo; Lanchimba, … - 2025

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An anatomy of urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gorin, Clément; Nakamura, Shohei - 2025

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An anatomy of urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gorin, Clement; Nakamura, Shohei; … - 2025

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An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2023

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Exploring the impacts of institutional quality, urbanization, and disaggregate globalization on environmental pollution in Somalia

Hussein, Hassan Abdikadir; Warsame, Abdimalik Ali; … - 2025

Environmental pollution and its implications are widespread issues that require a comprehensive understanding of effective strategies to mitigate emissions. Given the unique challenges faced by Somalia, including social, political, and environmental factors, it is crucial to assess the effects...

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Diversity, features, and challenges of managing urban protected areas, the case of Croatia

Marković Vukadin, Izidora; Dolenc, Nika; Opačić, Vuk … - 2025

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Evaluating environmental sustainability in Africa : the role of environmental taxes, productive capacities, and urbanization dynamics

Ben Youssef, Adel; Dahmani, Mounir - 2024

This study examines the complex relation among environmental taxes, productive capacities, urbanization, and their collective effects on environmental quality in Africa, drawing on two decades of data from twenty African countries. It situates the study within the broader discourse on...

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The potential of internal migration to shape rural and urban populations across Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Menashe-Oren, Ashira; Bocquier, Philippe - 2025

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Urbanization and health expenditure : an empirical investigation from households in Vietnam

Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung; Le, Hai - 2024

This study examines the effects of urbanization on household health expenditure. Using a unique bi-annually household-level dataset from 2012-2016 from Vietnam, we obtain key findings as follows. To mitigate possible endogeneity concerns, we utilize a two-stage least squares regression (2SLS)...

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Urbanization and health expenditure : an empirical investigation from households in Vietnam

Hang Thu Nguyen-Phung; Le, Hai - 2023

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Rural infrastructure supply and population mobility : an empirical analysis based on microdata for rural China

Song, Yunxing; Zhu, Jiguang; Song, Yan - 2025

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Trade shocks and urbanization : evidence from county-level data in China

Chen, Shuo; Li, Yiran; Wang, Xuanyi - 2024

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Digital economy, urban-rural integration, and high-quality agricultural development

Zhang, Lixiang; Ning, Zhaoshuo; Wang, Xinyuan; Luo, Qianfeng - 2025

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Historical legacies and urbanization : evidence from Chinese concessions

Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024

Can colonialism affect today’s urban outcomes? This paper examines the long-run impact of Concessions - foreign-run enclaves established in the late nineteenth century inside Chinese cities by European settlers for residence and investment purposes. They soon became the new economic hubs of...

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Historical legacies and urbanization : evidence from Chinese concessions

Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024 - Electronically published: 16.1.2024

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Historical legacies and urbanization : evidence from Chinese concessions

Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2019

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Creating cities and urban-rural income dynamics : evidence from county-to-district transformation in China

Chen, Wenhui; Hu, Xinyan - 2025

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Urbanization and income inequality

Akita, Takahiro - 2024

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Urbanization and the change in political elites

Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024

This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous changes to the boundaries of electoral constituencies in the...

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Urbanization and the change in political elites

Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024

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Urbanization and the change in political elites

Franck, Raphaël; Gay, Victor - 2024

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The impact of environmental protection on urbanization

Wu, Shang-Fen; Lee, Cheng-Te - 2025

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Industrial transfer policy in China : migration and development

Gerritse, Michiel; Wang, Zhiling; Oort, Frank van - 2024

China's Industrial Transfer Policy (ITP) is a novel place-based development policy of unprecedented scale. The policy targets a set of inland cities aiming to i) grow them in size and ii) restructure them into manufacturing hubs. These cities would eventually relieve pressure in China's coastal...

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Spatial imbalance in the digital era : how the digital economy affects urban sprawl in China

Wen, Huwei; Yu, Huiling; Lee, Chien-Chiang - 2025

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Cities and agricultural development

Steinhübel, Linda; Christiaensen, Luc J.; Minten, Bart; … - 2025

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Digital financial inclusion and environmental sustainability nexus : evidence from South Asian economies

Sadiq, Muhammad Nauman; Ali, Najabat - 2024

The concept of digital financial inclusion (DFI) has gained considerable attention in recent years due to its emergence as a prominent development strategy in several nations. While environmental sustainability is one of the biggest aims of the earth today. This study examines the impact of DFI...

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Revisiting the post-socialist city from an empiricist'’s perspective

Marcinczak, Szymon - 2025

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Urbanization, climate change, and structural transformation in Accra, Ghana

Danquah, Michael; Ouattara, Bazoumana; Ohemeng, Williams; … - 2024

This study examines the effect of climate on citywide labour productivity in the Accra city region. We use data from Ghana's Integrated Business and Establishment Survey dataset, climate data at the sub-city level from Ghana Meteorological Agency, and satellite and reanalysis data, as well as...

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Heterogeneous fertility responses to the two-child policy : growth-induced domestic migration and income effect

Du, Jane; King, Cheng - 2025

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Urbanization without structural transformation in Accra, Ghana

Ohemeng, Williams; Iddrisu, Abdul Malik; Domfe, George; … - 2024

This paper draws on quantitative and qualitative analyses to examine the patterns of structural transformation, the drivers and constraints of structural transformation, and how the configuration of power within the city and its interactions with national and city political settlements affects...

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Urbanization without structural transformation in Lagos, Nigeria

Folawewo, Abiodun Oluwole - 2024

This study examines the relationship between urbanization and structural transformation in Lagos. Specifically, the study focuses on spatial distribution of economic activities, and the patterns and drivers of, as well as constraints to, structural transformation in the city of Lagos from a...

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Urbanization without structural transformation in Lagos, Nigeria

Folawewo, Abiodun Oluwole - 2024

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White goods demand among bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers under urbanization

Zhang, He; Chen, Dingran; Xiao, Yang - 2025

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Reverse causality between urbanization and climate change

Khezri-nejad-gharaei, Mahdieh; Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel - 2025

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Reducing carbon dioxide emissions in Somalia : do renewable energy and urbanization matter?

Hassan, Ali Yusuf; Hussein, Omar Ahmedqani - 2024

This study investigates the interplay between renewable energy Consumption, urbanization, and carbon emissions in Somalia, a region facing pressing environmental challenges. The study uses advanced econometric techniques like the ARDL model to uncover short- and long-term dynamics that impact...

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