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Access to credit and economic complexity: Evidence from Italian provinces J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Roberto Basile, Luisa Giallonardo, Alessandro Girardi, Daniele Mantegazzi
This paper focuses on the relationship between “urbanization economies” and access to bank credit by assessing the role of product variety and economic complexity in affecting local credit market conditions. Using quarterly data on Italian provinces for 2008–2018 and adopting a dynamic (spatial) econometric approach, the work provides robust evidence highlighting how local economic complexity reduces
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Spatial wage disparities and human capital externalities in France J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Paul Charruau
We re‐examine the respective role of local density and local concentration of human capital in the agglomeration gains for about 750,00 individuals working in 304 commuting zones of metropolitan France over the period 2009–2015. Agglomeration gains are mostly driven by human capital effects over this period. Also, because it absorbs dynamic learning effects, the use of worker fixed effects to address
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In search of key performance indicators of regional competitiveness in the European Union J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Kamila Borsekova, Samuel Korony, Colin W. Lawson
This study investigates key performance indicators (KPIs) affecting regional competitiveness in the European Union (EU) and compares its performance across two groups of EU regions identified by their development phase based on the path dependence argument. Utilizing 40 indicators from the Regional Competitiveness Index (RCI) across 268 NUTS2 regions, it identifies five critical KPIs: Knowledge workers
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Local labor market effects of offshoring: Evidence from the US Trade Adjustment Assistance program J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Hyejoon Im, Yang Shen, Myunghwan Yoo
We explore the wage effects of offshoring‐induced employment shocks in US commuting zones (CZs) and industries. Using data on petitions for the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA), we measure such shocks by computing the share of TAA‐certified offshoring‐induced layoffs out of total employment. We further identify material‐offshoring shocks and service‐offshoring shocks and connect the TAA data to individual‐level
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Working from home, commuting time, and intracity house‐price gradients J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Jinwon Kim, Dede Long
The popularity of working from home (WFH) in the US has surged over the past two decades, with the COVID‐19 pandemic further accelerating this trend. We hypothesize that WFH not only reduces the frequency of physical commutes but also lowers the time cost of commutes due to decreased urban congestion levels; both factors would flatten house‐price gradients. Analyzing big data from Google Maps on travel
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Direct and spillover effects of short‐ and long‐term land pricing drivers: Evidence from Italian districts, 1992−2019 J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Emma Bruno, Rosalia Castellano, Gennaro Punzo, Luca Salvati
The global economic and food crisis has increased the demand for land and rekindled the interest in farmland market investments worldwide. This study explores the Italian farmland market, investigating its main influencing factors from 1992 to 2019 using a spatial econometric framework. Traditional land characteristics and location‐specific agricultural factors, as well as non‐agricultural factors
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Do what we did last year, but do not stray too far from the pack: A behavioral public finance approach to municipal cash reserves J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Kawika Pierson, Jon C. Thompson, Fred Thompson
We leverage a national panel of US municipalities to show that behavioral finance helps explain the number of months of expenses that municipalities save in cash and investment reserves. We hypothesize that municipal managers may be using numerical anchoring based on historical values to target the number of months of savings to hold and that they may also be engaged in social learning to target months
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Ethnicity and UK graduate migration: An identity economics approach J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Sean Brophy
This paper reports on the employment migration behavior of non-White ethnic minority graduates in the United Kingdom for the 2018/2019 graduation cohort, which is the last cohort to enter the labor market before the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the new Graduate Outcomes survey and controlling for a rich set of background characteristics, the findings indicate that ethnic minority graduates are
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Does size matter? Evidence from municipal splits J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Gissur Ó Erlingsson, Jonas Klarin, Eva Mörk
We contribute to the limited knowledge of the consequences of municipal splits by estimating how break-ups of seven Swedish municipalities affected per capita expenditures. To predict what would have happened had the break-ups not taken place, we apply the matrix completion method with nuclear norm minimization. We find that smaller municipalities not necessarily imply higher per capita expenditures
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Racing to Zipf's law: Race and metropolitan population size 1910–2020 J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Ricardo T. Fernholz, Rory Kramer
Scholarship demonstrates that urban systems follow a power law population distribution if the population has full labor mobility. Theoretically, subpopulations should also follow a power law population distribution if that subpopulation also has full labor mobility. Examining city population distributions for White and Black Americans across US metropolitan areas from 1910 to 2020 shows that the White
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Does inequality migrate? The development of income inequality across German states J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-01-21 Oleg Badunenko, Maria Popova
This study analyzes the evolution of educational and occupational patterns among migrants and natives, as well as income inequality in Germany from 1985 to 2015. We show that despite migrants catching up in education, employment, and income with their native counterparts, unfavorable societal attitudes toward them have remained virtually unchanged, which can be attributed to Bourdieu's conceptualization
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Climate risk and commercial mortgage delinquency J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Rogier Holtermans, Matthew E. Kahn, Nils Kok
Natural disasters such as hurricanes, floods, heatwaves, and wildfires are projected to become more prevalent in the foreseeable future. Climate risk is, therefore, increasingly recognized as an important factor by policy makers, the investment community, and financial markets. Due to the immobility of assets, the commercial real estate industry is especially vulnerable to climate risk, and there is
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Cultural shock of high-speed rail: Evidence from social trust J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Fanglin Chen, Zhongfei Chen
The opening of high-speed rail (HSR), as an exogenous shock, has had a profound and complex effect on social life. This study analyzes the effect of the opening of HSR on social trust. Results show that the opening of HSR promotes social trust. Mechanism analysis showed that although the opening of HSR accelerated population mobility and decreased trust in strangers, economic growth and improvement
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Local employment multipliers for large publicly subsidized firms: Evidence from a synthetic control approach J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Andrew Hanson, Shawn Rohlin
This paper provides estimates of local employment multipliers from large, publicly subsidized firms. We use a synthetic control weighted difference-in-difference estimation procedure that matches treated areas with comparison areas to generate local employment multiplier estimates. We show that local employment multiplier estimates have a high degree of uncertainty, with a wide range of point estimates
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The impact of long-distance commuting on salaries and employment in host regions in Chile J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Viviana Carriel, Manuel Pérez-Trujillo, Marcelo Lufin, Miguel Atienza
Long-distance commuting (LDC) is an increasingly relevant strategy of labor mobility worldwide and is therefore key to understanding the structure and dynamics of labor markets. However, little is known about the effect that LDC has on the labor market equilibrium of host territories. This paper addresses this gap for the case of Chile. While LDC is a useful strategy for improving salary and employment
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Migration and the location of MNE activities: Evidence from Italian provinces J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Luigi Benfratello, Davide Castellani, Anna D'Ambrosio
We investigate the migration-inward foreign direct investment (FDI) nexus in narrow geographies. A novel two-stage empirical strategy allows us to investigate the role of migration as a determinant of multinational enterprises (MNEs) location choices and unpick heterogeneity in foreign investors' preferences towards the presence of migrants in the host location. This allows us to shed light on the
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Within-development density and housing prices in Singapore J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu, Louisa Poco
This paper measures how much more households pay for less density in their immediate surroundings. Using transaction and administrative data and exploiting the introduction of a regulation that restricted the number of housing units for certain land lots, we find that households discount density: a 10% increase in within-development density decreases the price per square meter by 5%. Further, the mean
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Do municipal unions improve cost efficiency for the social function? A quasi-experimental endogenous stochastic frontier approach J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Francesco Vidoli, Fabio Quintiliani, Giorgio Ivaldi, Giorgia Marinuzzi, Francesco Porcelli, Walter Tortorella
Homogeneous national policies can generate heterogeneous effects on the territory. This paper aims to verify the impact of the entry of single Italian municipalities into an inter-municipal association on the unitary costs of the social services supplied to the local communities. Panel cost stochastic frontier model in the presence of endogeneity has been introduced based on two pillars: a counterfactual
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Why do students leave school early in OECD countries? The role of regional labor markets and school policies J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Julien Bonnet, Fabrice Murtin
This paper examines the determinants of early school leaving (ESL) in a panel of 371 regions of OECD countries observed between 1998 and 2019. The empirical analysis includes both local factors previously emphasized by micro-economic studies and national-level factors such as education policies. We find that labor market opportunities for young people, as captured by the youth unemployment rate or
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Is it really bridging the gap? Fiber internet's impact on housing values and homebuyer demographics J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 David Wolf, Nicholas Irwin
Fiber internet expansion represents a path to improved economic vitality for Americans, but it is unclear who benefits from it and by how much. We examine the effects of subsidized fiber internet expansion on home prices and homebuyer demographics using data from Wisconsin and an IV approach to correct for fiber network endogeneity. We find fiber internet increases urban and rural housing values by
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Too late to buy a home? School redistricting and the timing and extent of capitalization J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Xiaozhou Ding, Christopher Bollinger, Michael Clark, William Hoyt
In the past 50 years, a voluminous literature estimating the value of schools through capitalization in home prices has emerged. Prior research has identified capitalization using a variety of approaches including discontinuities caused by boundaries. Here, we use changes in school boundaries and the opening of a new school in Fayette County (Lexington), Kentucky to identify this capitalization. Critical
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Electoral rule and public sector efficiency: Some evidence from Italian municipalities J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Sergio Destefanis, Luigi Guadalupi
We study the effect of Law 81/1993, which introduced a different rule for the election of mayors, on the technical efficiency of Italian cities over the period 1998–2006. Since 1993, municipalities below 15,000 inhabitants vote with a single-ballot system, whereas cities above 15,000 inhabitants are subject to a double ballot. We first estimate the output-oriented technical efficiency of municipalities
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Universities in inclusive regional innovation systems: Academic engagement and uneven knowledge use in Brazil J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Marcia Siqueira Rapini, Tulio Chiarini, Alexandre de Queiroz Stein
The purpose of this paper is to spatially and regionally examine academic engagement within Brazil, identifying patterns. Moreover, our investigation can contribute to a better understanding of how knowledge can be turned into a tool to fight regional inequality. We depart from two hypotheses: first, universities situated in peripheral regions interact more with companies from relatively more dynamic
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Divided we fall? The effect of manufacturing decline on the social capital of US communities J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Andreas Diemer
What happens to local communities when manufacturing disappears? I examine changes in associational density over nearly two decades as a proxy for social capital in US labor markets. Exploiting plausibly exogenous trade-induced shocks to local manufacturing activity, I test whether deindustrialization is associated with greater or lower organizational membership. I uncover a robust negative relationship
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Gaining in impacts by leveraging the policy mix: Evidence from the European Cohesion Policy in more developed regions J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Enrico Cristofoletti, Roberto Gabriele, Mara Giua
This paper investigates how the overall impact of the European Cohesion Policy depends on the composition of the regional investment in Hard (infrastructure) and Soft (business and technical support) projects. The study employs a generalized propensity score (GPS) analysis in a multidimensional treatment context. In particular, the two dimensions considered are given by the Hard and Soft investments
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Premature exit from and delayed entrance into the less developed status: An empirical appraisal of the structural funds allocation criterion J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Francesco Scotti, Laura Dell'Agostino, Andrea Flori, Fabio Pammolli
This paper investigates the impact of the main criterion employed by the European Commission for the allocation of the largest portion of Structural Funds, based on the threshold of the 75% of European Union (EU) average gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. We focus on the 2014–2020 programming period and on EU-15 regions to analyze if this criterion has penalized some of them, as a consequence
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Lights out: The economic impacts of Covid-19 on cities globally J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Amjad Muhammad Khan, Hogeun Park, Mark Roberts, Putu Sanjiwacika Wibisana
This paper uses high-frequency nighttime lights data and a variety of empirical methods to analyze the impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on economic activity during the period January 2020–March 2021 for a global sample of 2841 cities. Particular attention is paid to the role of a city's population density in shaping these impacts. While economic activity in cities is found to be negatively affected by
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Public capital and institutions' quality in the Italian regions J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Federico Aresu, Emanuela Marrocu, Raffaele Paci
This paper investigates the role played by public capital on the production level of Italian regions by specifically accounting for the quality of institutions. Our analysis, carried out over the period 2000–2019, benefits from a rich data set on public expenditures. This allows us to build the regional public capital stock by distinguishing among public institutions in charge of the investments and
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How does the Covid-19 pandemic affect regional labor markets and why do large cities suffer most? J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Silke Hamann, Annekatrin Niebuhr, Duncan Roth, Georg Sieglen
We estimate the spatially heterogeneous effects of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on labor market dynamics in Germany until December 2021. While initially slightly stronger in rural regions and large agglomerations, adverse effects quickly become more pronounced and persistent in large agglomerations compared to all other region types. We ascribe the larger impact of the pandemic in large agglomerations
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The Japanese textile sector and the influenza pandemic of 1918–1920 J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Ilan Noy, Toshihiro Okubo, Eric Strobl
The ongoing global pandemic has brought into sharp relief the possible interactions between the epidemiology of a virus, the structure of the economy and society that becomes exposed to it, and the actions chosen by government, individuals, and communities to combat it or ameliorate its economic impact. Surprisingly, there has not been sufficient research on these economic and policy interactions of
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From the historical Roman road network to modern infrastructure in Italy J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Luca De Benedictis, Vania Licio, Anna Maria Pinna
The road system built during the Roman Empire continues to have a significant impact on modern infrastructure in Italy. This paper examines the historical influence of Roman roads on the development of Italy's motorways and railways. The empirical analysis demonstrates how modern Italian transport infrastructure largely follows the path of the consular trajectories established by the network of Roman
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Vive le Tour!? Estimating the place-based benefits of hosting the Tour de France J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Teemu Makkonen, Timo Mitze
The Tour de France (TdF) is one of the biggest and most recognized annual sporting events in the world. Cities and regions participate actively by hosting a stage start and/or finish, but it is unclear if there are place-based benefits from such local engagements. We estimate the direct and spatially indirect immediate regional benefits of hosting a TdF stage using monthly tourism data for French départements
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Correction to Employment opportunities, wages and interregional migration in Sweden 1970–1989 J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-06-26
Westerlund O. (1997) Employment opportunities, wages and interregional migration in Sweden 1970–1989. Journal of Regional Science, 37(1):55–73. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0022-4146.00043 In article title, word “International” is incorrect and the correct title should read: Employment opportunities, wages and interregional migration in Sweden 1970–1989 We apologize for this error
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Crime in the era of COVID-19: Evidence from England J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Kyriakos C. Neanidis, Maria P. Rana
This paper examines the effects of COVID-19-induced lockdowns on recorded crime in England. The enforcement of lockdowns at both the national and local levels allows unveiling the impact on criminal activities by type of shutdown policy. Using official crime data across the universe of local authorities, we find that unlike local lockdowns national lockdowns significantly change the shape of recorded
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Business dynamism, educational attainment, and residential location choice J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Sydney Schreiner Wertz
Using individual-level, geocode data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth's 1997 cohort, I ask whether business dynamism in local labor markets, defined as the rates of job creation and establishment entry, affects the location decisions of labor force participants, and I examine how effects differ for highly and less educated labor force participants. I find that a one standard deviation
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Impact of demolitions on neighboring property values in Detroit J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Camila Alvayay Torrejón, Dusan Paredes, Mark Skidmore
Urban blight is a complex problem that has been challenging for cities in the United States “Rust Belt” region for many decades. However, in the wake of the real estate and financial crisis, it is also a growing challenge for urban communities in many states such as California, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas. Detroit was particularly hit hard, where more than 40,000 blighted structures were identified
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The effect of open space maintenance spending on house prices J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 David M. Brasington
We study the effect on housing values of cutting funding for the maintenance of local parks and recreational areas. It is the first study we find on house prices and park maintenance spending, and only the second open space study we find that uses regression discontinuity. We study tax votes with exogenous timing for renewing current expense spending on parks and recreation, adding to the vibrant literature
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Mafia doesn't live here anymore: Antimafia policies and housing prices J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Francesca M. Calamunci, Livio Ferrante, Rossana Scebba, Gianpiero Torrisi
It is well known that the value of a house depends both on the physical characteristics and on some features of the neighborhood in which it is located. If so, organized-crime activities can significantly affect urban real estate values. Antimafia policies, in turn, can be intended as a tool to influence those external features. This paper compares the effects on real estate values of the two main
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Inter- and intraregional inequality in a spatial economy J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Juan Carlos Lopez, Tadashi Morita
In this paper, we develop a three-region economic geography model with workers of heterogeneous skills and mobility rates to consider how first-nature, regional differences impact both inter- and intraregional inequality. In our model, the skill premium within a region summarizes both the degree of intraregional inequality between mobile, skilled workers and immobile, unskilled workers and the interregional
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The role of aviation networks for urban development J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Anca D. Cristea
City officials are continuously working to attract airlines willing to fly to new destinations. The inherent expectation is that a more extensive aviation network stimulates economic growth. This paper investigates empirically the causal implication of this hypothesis. Using data on nonstop flights by origin and destination over the period 1984–2013, we propose a new measure for a metropolitan area's
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Wildfire risk, salience, and housing development in the wildland–urban interface J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Katie Jo Black, Nicholas B. Irwin, Shawn J. McCoy
As wildfires increase in both severity and frequency, understanding the role of risk saliency on human behaviors in the face of fire risks becomes paramount. While research has shown that homebuyers capitalize wildfire risk following a fire, studies of the role that risk saliency plays on residential development is limited. This paper aims to fill this gap by studying the link between wildfire risk
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COVID-19 and employment relief programs: A tale of spatially blind policies for a spatially driven pandemic J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-03-26 Esteban López Ochoa, Juan Eberhard, Patricio Aroca
We use the case of Chile to analyze the effectiveness of a spatially blind employment relief program (hereafter referred to as the LPE program) established by the Chilean government and implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chile is an interesting case because on the one hand its nonpharmaceutical interventions were spatially driven by health indicators based on small geographical areas; hence
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War and city size: The asymmetric effects of the Spanish Civil War J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Rafael González-Val, Javier Silvestre
Populations are affected by shocks of different kinds, and wars, a priori, may be among the most prominent. This article studies the effect of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) shock on the distribution of population, especially on cities. One of the main contributions of this study is that it underlines the importance of distinguishing between winning and losing sides, an aspect which until now has
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The ripple effects of large-scale transport infrastructure investment J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Damiaan Persyn, Javier Barbero, Jorge Díaz-Lanchas, Patrizio Lecca, Giovanni Mandras, Simone Salotti
We analyze the general equilibrium effects of an asymmetric decrease in transport costs, combining a large-scale spatial dynamic general equilibrium model for 267 European NUTS-2 regions with a detailed transport model at the level of individual road segments. As a case study, we consider the impact of the road infrastructure investments in Central and Eastern Europe of the European Cohesion Policy
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Evidence on economies of scale in local public service provision: A meta-analysis J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Juan Luis Gómez-Reino, Santiago Lago-Peñas, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
The standard theory of optimal jurisdictional size hinges on the existence of economies of scale in the provision of local public goods and services. However, despite its relevance for forced local amalgamation programs and related policies, the empirical evidence on the existence of such economies of scale remains elusive. The main goal of this paper is to produce an updated and comprehensive quantitative
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The spatial distribution of population in Spain: An anomaly in European perspective J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Eduardo Gutiérrez, Enrique Moral-Benito, Daniel Oto-Peralías, Roberto Ramos
We exploit the GEOSTAT 2011 population grid with a very high 1 km2 resolution to document that Spain presents the lowest density of settlements among European countries. Only a small fraction of the Spanish territory is inhabited, particularly in its southern half, which goes hand in hand with a high degree of population concentration. We uncover through standard regression analysis and spatial regression
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Firm-level productivity growth returns of social capital: Evidence from Western Europe J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2023-01-18 Roberto Ganau, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
We analyze the firm-level labor productivity growth returns of social capital—defined as a synthetic measure of “generalized trust,” “active participation,” and “social norms”—using a large sample of manufacturing firms in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. We find that firms' labor productivity growth is higher in areas with a better social capital endowment. The positive returns of social
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Rediscovering regional science: Positioning the field's evolving location in science and society J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Zhenhua Chen, Laurie A. Schintler
This study aims to provide a comprehensive examination of the evolution of regional science, a scholarly domain in the social sciences that applies analytical and quantitative approaches and methods to understand and address urban, rural, or regional problems. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of 8509 articles published in six regional science flagship journals (including the Journal of Regional
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What kind of region reaps the benefits of a currency union? J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Augusto Cerqua, Roberta Di Stefano, Guido Pellegrini
What is the economic impact of joining a currency union? Is this impact heterogeneous across regions? And how does it change in case of a recession? We answer these questions by investigating the economic impact of joining the euro area for the latecomers, that is, the eastern European countries that adopted the euro after 2002. Differently from previous literature, we use NUTS-2 regions as units of
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The task coordination method of intelligence-alliance innovation team of universities in Western China J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Qinwei Cao, Qiaoyu Meng, Can Wang, Jing Wang, Wanchun Duan
To resolve the dilemma among a shortage of high-end talents, low level of scientific research and a huge brain drain in western universities in China, we proposes a way out by building an intelligence-alliance innovation team—a new interregional and multiagent cooperation mode. We identify major disagreements that hamper a fruitful collaboration, and then analyze reasons of such poor coordination.
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Are the home values and property tax burdens of permanent homeowners affected by growth in housing rentals and second homes: Evidence based on big data from Florida J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-11-02 Keith Ihlanfeldt, Cynthia Fan Yang
Homeowners who make their homes their primary residence have resisted the entry of rentals into their neighborhoods and cities. Possible reasons underlying this resistance are that rentals reduce the property values, increase the property tax burdens, and raise the price of public services for these homeowners. We relate the market values of single-family homes occupied by permanent homeowners, the
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The impact of crime on firm entry J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Nicolò Barbieri, Ugo Rizzo
The article investigates the effect of crime on firm entry rates in Italian provinces over the period 2007–2016. The extant literature focuses mainly on the relationship between crime and the sorting of new businesses. The present paper contributes to this stream of work by estimating the effect of crime on the overall propensity to engage in entrepreneurial activities across a national territory.
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Long-term decline of regions and the rise of populism: The case of Germany J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Maria Greve, Michael Fritsch, Michael Wyrwich
What characterizes regions where right-wing populist parties are relatively successful? A prominent hypothesis proposed in the emerging “geography of discontent” literature claims that places that are “left behind” constitute a breeding ground for the rise of populism. We re-examine this hypothesis by analyzing the rise of populism in Germany. Our results suggest that high vote shares of populist parties
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Digital gravity? Firm birth and relocation patterns of young digital firms in Germany J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Vanessa Hellwig
This paper analyses the spatial patterns of young (<10 years) digital firms in Germany between 2008 and 2017 on county level. Determinants of firm birth locations as well as relocations are considered jointly to understand differences in location choices within firms' life cycles. I match commercial register data of 107,321 firms with county-level administrative data to capture local characteristics
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Geographic earnings inequality by race, 1960–2016 J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-09-18 Andrew W. Nutting
Geographic inequality and racial disharmony are considered major factors in America's political divergence. This paper calculates geographic earnings inequality from 1960 to 2016 separately by race. From 2000 to 2016, White geographic inequality was significantly higher, and Hispanic geographic inequality was significantly lower, than Black and Asian geographic inequality. White geographic inequality
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An information-theoretic approach to the analysis of location and colocation patterns J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-09-08 Alje van Dam, Andres Gomez-Lievano, Frank Neffke, Koen Frenken
The study of location and colocation of economic activities lies at the heart of economic geography and related disciplines, but the indices used to quantify these patterns are often defined ad hoc and lack a clear statistical foundation. We propose a statistical framework to quantify location and colocation associations of economic activities using information-theoretic measures. We relate the resulting
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Geography of contestation: A study on the Yellow Vest movement and the rise of populism in France J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Sebastien Bourdin, André Torre
The rise of a geography of discontent highlighted in recent studies points to a strong association between voting for populist parties and territories with socioeconomic difficulties. While discontent has primarily been addressed through the analysis of populist votes, we provide additional elements of analysis by comparing these populist votes to the Yellow Vest movement, and we distinguish the populist
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Access to capital markets and the geography of productivity leaders and laggards J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-09-04 Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Anna Cecilia Rosso
This paper examines whether access to the capital market of convertible and nonconvertible bonds affects total factor productivity (TFP) for the population of Italian joint stock manufacturing companies, based in highly segmented local financial markets, between 2007 and 2017. The hypothesis, well grounded in the literature, is that long-term capital favors investment in intangibles and other risky
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A socioeconomic impact assessment of three Italian national parks J. Reg. Sci. (IF 2.807) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Riccardo D'Alberto, Francesco Pagliacci, Matteo Zavalloni
The expansion of protected areas (PAs) is feared to negatively affect the local economy, as every PA, albeit to different degrees, entails restriction to the economic activities. The literature on the topic has started assessing what is the socioeconomic impact of PAs, mostly focusing on the Global South. The objective of this article is the analysis of the socioeconomic impact of three Italian national