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Dynamics of policy adoption with state dependence
Publication date: Available online 21 September 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): David R. Agrawal, A. TrandelAbstractWe consider the dynamics of policy diffusion when a first-moving jurisdiction that legalizes an activity reduces the probability of legalization in nearby later-acting jurisdictions. If a jurisdiction's firms can sell to neighboring residents, but if the good is competitively sold at every location, then policies converge: all jurisdictions legalize or all jurisdictions ban. If firms have some market power, and if the location of firms depends on the order of legalization, an early-...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - September 22, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

The side effects on health of a recovery plan in Italy: A nonparametric bounding approach
Publication date: September 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 78Author(s): Domenico DepaloAbstractThis paper estimates the causal effects on health-related outcomes of recovery plans that were implemented in some Italian regions in the period 2007–12. Using administrative data, for regions that underwent the program the paper estimates negative effects on hospitalization and (to some extent) mortality rates, without gains in terms of efficiency. The lower the reduction of expenditures, the less severe the consequences on health outcomes. Since the assumptions required by standard methods do not hol...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - September 21, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

Tests for spatial dependence and heterogeneity in spatially autoregressive varying coefficient models with application to Boston house price analysis
Publication date: Available online 18 September 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Deng-Kui Li, Chang-Lin Mei, Ning WangAbstractSpatially autoregressive varying coefficient models are a powerful tool for simultaneously dealing with spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity in spatial data analysis. Different methods have been developed for estimating the models. Nevertheless, little work has been devoted to their statistical inference issues. In this paper, two generalized-likelihood-ratio-statistic-based bootstrap tests are developed to detect spatial autocorrelation in the response variable and...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - September 19, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

Migration deflection: The role of Preferential Trade Agreements
Publication date: Available online 5 September 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Cosimo Beverelli, Gianluca OreficeAbstractWe derive and estimate a migration gravity equation featuring bilateral and third country migration and offshoring costs to investigate whether there is migration deflection across origin countries. Such deflection occurs if migration from an origin country to a destination country is negatively affected by reductions in the costs of migrating from third origin countries to the destination country. Using information on migration- and offshoring-related provisions contained in P...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - September 6, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

Locus of control and internal migration
Publication date: Available online 5 September 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Marco Caliendo, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Juliane Hennecke, Arne UhlendorffAbstractWe model migration across domestic labor markets (internal migration) as the outcome of a job search process in which job seekers form subjective beliefs about the return search effort that are related to their locus of control. Job seekers with an internal locus of control are predicted to search across larger geographic areas and migrate more frequently as a result. We empirically test the relationship between locus of control and the pro...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - September 6, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

All roads lead to Rome … and to sprawl? Evidence from European cities
Publication date: Available online 31 August 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Miquel-Àngel Garcia-LópezAbstractOver the last 15 years, we have learned that highways cause suburbanization and population growth. However, little is known about the resulting residential land use patterns. This paper aims to fill this gap by being the first to comprehensively analyze the effects of highways on sprawl. Using data from the Corine Land Cover project and the highway network for 579 European cities in 1990, 2000 and 2012, I find that a 10% increase in the stock of highways (km) causes a 1.1% growth in the...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - September 1, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

Not in my backyard? Not so fast. The effect of marijuana legalization on neighborhood crime
Publication date: Available online 24 August 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Jeffrey Brinkman, David Mok-LammeAbstractThis paper studies the effects of marijuana legalization on neighborhood crime and documents the patterns in retail dispensary locations over time using detailed micro-level data from Denver, Colorado. To account for endogenous retail dispensary locations, we use a novel identification strategy that exploits exogenous changes in demand across different locations arising from the increased importance of external markets after the legalization of recreational marijuana sales. The re...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - August 25, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

Mapping China’s time-varying house price landscape
Publication date: September 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 78Author(s): Michael Funke, Danilo Leiva-Leon, Andrew TsangAbstractThe recent increase in China’s house prices at the national level masks tremendous variation at the city level – a feature largely overlooked in the macroprudential literature. This paper measures the evolving heterogeneity in China’s house price dynamics across 70 major cities and assesses its relationship with housing market characteristics. We gauge the heterogeneity of house price dynamics using a novel regime-switching modelling approach to estimate the time-vary...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - August 24, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

Enterprise zones, poverty, and labor market outcomes: Resolving conflicting evidence
Publication date: Available online 21 August 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): David Neumark, Timothy YoungAbstractThis paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham et al. (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error accounts for a large share of the estimated impact of state EZs in reducing poverty. More generally, we find that both state and federal EZs appear to be endogenously selected based on prior changes in poverty and other labor ma...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - August 21, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

Heterogeneity in the effect of federal spending on local crime: Evidence from causal forests
Publication date: Available online 13 August 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Ian Hoffman, Evan MastAbstractFederal place-based policy could improve efficiency if it targets areas with large amenity or agglomeration externalities. We begin by showing that positive shocks to federal spending in a county and their associated economic stimulus substantially decrease crime, an important amenity. We then employ two machine learning algorithms—causal trees and causal forests—to conduct a data-driven search for heterogeneity in this effect. The effect is larger in below-median income counties, and th...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - August 14, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

The side effects on health of a recovery plan in Italy A nonparametric bounding approach
Publication date: Available online 13 August 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Domenico DepaloAbstractThis paper estimates the causal effects on health-related outcomes of recovery plans that were implemented in some Italian regions in the period 2007–12. Using administrative data, for regions that underwent the program the paper estimates negative effects on hospitalization and (to some extent) mortality rates, without gains in terms of efficiency. The lower the reduction of expenditures, the less severe the consequences on health outcomes. Since the assumptions required by standard methods do n...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - August 14, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

Mapping China's time-varying house price landscape
Publication date: Available online 9 August 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Michael Funke, Danilo Leiva-Leon, Andrew TsangAbstractThe recent increase in China's house prices at the national level masks tremendous variation at the city level – a feature largely overlooked in the macroprudential literature. This paper measures the evolving heterogeneity in China's house price dynamics across 70 major cities and assesses its relationship with housing market characteristics. We gauge the heterogeneity of house price dynamics using a novel regime-switching modelling approach to estimate the time-var...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - August 10, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

Does fiscal decentralization affect regional disparities in health? Quasi-experimental evidence from Italy
Publication date: Available online 9 August 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Cinzia Di Novi, Massimiliano Piacenza, Silvana Robone, Gilberto TuratiAbstractRecent theories on fiscal decentralization support the view that sub-national governments who finance a larger share of their spending with taxes raised locally by themselves are more accountable towards their citizens. Whilst evidence on improvements in spending efficiency is relatively common, little is known about the effects on inequalities amongst the population. In this paper we exploit a reform aimed at increasing regional tax autonomy in...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - August 10, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

Human capital spillovers and the churning phenomenon: Analysing wage effects from gross in- and outflows of high-skilled workers
Publication date: Available online 6 August 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban EconomicsAuthor(s): Johann Eppelsheimer, Joachim MöllerThe article estimates human capital externalities on wages originating from internal gross migration flows of high-skilled workers. We draw on rich administrative micro panel data that allow us to disentangle externalities from sorting and labour market supply and demand effects through an extensive set of time-varying fixed effects. We show that regional inflows and outflows of high-skilled workers occur simultaneously and that both are positively correlated. Given the existence of suc...
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - August 6, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research

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Publication date: July 2019Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 77Author(s): (Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics)
Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics - July 25, 2019 Category: Science Source Type: research