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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Using a novel longitudinal dataset, we study the intergenerational mobility of rural–urban migrants who returned to the countryside in due course. By examining pairs of brothers during the entire migration lifecycle – from childhood until age 34 – we estimate the effect of temporarily relocating to an urban area on occupational income over the
Jonatan Andersson
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Good Governance, Trade and Agglomeration [PDF]
We develop a model for developing countries that investigates the factors behind agglomeration of activities in urban giants. Firstly we show that relatively easier market access to external demand provided by the urban giant tends to attract ...
Candau, Fabien
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Stationary steam power in the United Kingdom, 1800–70: An empirical reassessment
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The conventional view that the industrial revolution was premised on the unprecedented supply of mechanical power delivered via steam engines has been undermined by econometric work, purporting to show that their adoption outside the cotton and mining sectors was extremely limited until at least 1870.
Sean Bottomley
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This study advances a new approach to investigating the resilience of regional banking systems by reconstructing the co‐evolving branch and interbank networks in post‐Confederation Canada (1879–1900). By digitizing annual banking registers, this study employed a microgeographic approach to constructing a novel longitudinal dataset on city ...
Alena V. Pivavarava
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Agglomeration economies and productivity in Indian industry [PDF]
"New"economic geography theory, and the development of innovative methods of analysis have renewed interest in the location, and spatial concentration of economic activities.
Deichmann, Uwe +2 more
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Urban influence on increasing ozone concentrations in a characteristic Mediterranean agglomeration [PDF]
, 2014 Miguel Escudero +4 more
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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What’s In a City?: Understanding the Micro-Level Employer Dynamics Underlying Urban Growth [PDF]
This paper synthesizes the literatures on labor dynamics and urban growth and agglomeration by presenting new evidence on the micro-level establishment dynamics of metropolitan areas.
R. Jason Faberman
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LandWith the acceleration of urbanization, the high density and intensity of urban construction and expansion have led to an exacerbation of the urban heat island (UHI) effect, which, in turn, contributes to global climate warming and severely impacts urban ...
Yuexia Han +5 more
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Spatio-temporal variability of surface water quality of fresh water resources in Ranchi Urban Agglomeration, India using geospatial techniques [PDF]
, 2014 Arvind Chandra Pandey, Amit Kumar
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