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Productivity is high in cities partly because the urban environment acts as a self-selection mechanism. If workers have imperfect information about the quality of workers with whom they match and matches take place within cities, then high-ability workers will choose to live and work in...
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than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the … singles are more likely to move from rural areas to cities while married couples are more likely to make the reverse movement …
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How to sustain cooperation is a key challenge for any society. Different social organizations have evolved in the course of history to cope with this challenge by relying on different combinations of external (formal and informal) enforcement institutions and intrinsic motivation. Some societies...
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We study the effects of a decrease in trade costs on the spatial distribution of industry in a multi-regional economy, when a rise in the regional population of workers generates higher urban costs. When the number of cities is unaffected by falling trade costs, small cities become smaller for...
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We address the fundamental question arising in economic geography: why do economic activities agglomerate in a small number of places? The main reasons for the formation of economic clusters involving firms and/or households are analysed: (i) externalities under perfect competition; (ii)...
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couples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay in the city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who married outside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …
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We use Swedish adoption data combined with police register data to study parent-son associations in crime. For adopted …-birth factors for generating parent-son associations in crime. We find that pre-birth and post-birth factors are both important …
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's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. The first stage of the analysis employs a … percent for males and females, respectively. In addition, we find that the effect of education on crime persists across birth … cohorts, throughout the life cycle, and across crime categories. …
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to lead a life of crime than those entering a buoyant labour market. Thus crime scars from higher entry level …
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We provide evidence for a beneficial welfare impact of a crime policy that is targeted at strenghtening victim …
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