Transport Infrastructure and the Decentralization of Cities in the People’s Republic of China Nathaniel Baum-Snow and Matthew A. Turner∗ It is widely believed that transport infrastructure has important impacts on the development of cities. Until…
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Asia’s Geographic Development
Asia’s Geographic Development Klaus Desmet, Dávid Krisztián Nagy, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg∗ This paper studies the impact of spatial frictions on Asia’s long-term spatial development. Using the framework provided in Desmet, Nagy, and Rossi-Hansberg (2016), nous…
Household Energy Consumption and Its
Household Energy Consumption and Its Determinants in Timor-Leste ∗ DIL BAHADUR RAHUT, KHONDOKER ABDUL MOTTALEB, AND AKHTER ALI Using data from the 2007 Timor-Leste Living Standards Survey, this paper examines the determinants of household energy…
Determinants of Intra-ASEAN Migration
Determinants of Intra-ASEAN Migration ∗ MICHELE TUCCIO International labor mobility in Southeast Asia has risen drastically in recent decades and is expected to continue increasing with the establishment of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations…
Undervaluation, Financial Development,
Undervaluation, Financial Development, and Economic Growth ∗ JINGXIAN ZOU AND YAQI WANG This paper analyzes the effect of undervaluation on economic growth in the presence of borrowing constraints. Based on a two-sector, small open-economy model,…
Decomposing Total Factor Productivity Growth
Decomposing Total Factor Productivity Growth in Manufacturing and Services ∗ NEIL FOSTER-MCGREGOR AND BART VERSPAGEN Using the World Input–Output Database, this paper calculates total factor productivity (TFP) growth for a sample of 40 economies during…
Do Factory Managers Know What Workers
Do Factory Managers Know What Workers Want? Manager–Worker Information Asymmetries and Pareto Optimal Human Resource Management Policies PARIS ADLER, DRUSILLA BROWN, RAJEEV DEHEJIA, ∗ GEORGE DOMAT, AND RAYMOND ROBERTSON This paper evaluates the conjecture that…
The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Male and
The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Male and Female Employment and Earnings in India ∗ NIDHIYA MENON AND YANA VAN DER MEULEN RODGERS This study examines how employment and wages for men and women…
Growth Convergence and the
Growth Convergence and the Middle-Income Trap ∗ TAKATOSHI ITO Emerging market economies in East Asia have followed a similar growth path (growth convergence) from a low-income, high-growth state to a middle-income, middle-growth state through industrialization….
Sectoral Infrastructure Investments in an
Sectoral Infrastructure Investments in an Unbalanced Growing Economy: The Case of Potential Growth in India CHETAN GHATE, GERHARD GLOMM, AND JIALU LIU STREETER ∗ We construct a two-sector (agriculture and modern) overlapping generations growth model…