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Voluntary retirement savings in China: A spatial ordered probit approach

IF 3.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104090

Yong Bao , Timothy N. Bond , Ruiting Sun , Xueping Xiong

This paper employs a spatial ordered probit model to study people’s voluntary retirement savings decisions using survey data collected in 2017 in China, where savings are recorded in a set of discrete ordered categories. To account for spillover effects and cross-sectional correlations, induced by for example omitted factors, we construct spatial connectivity matrices based on age and education for people located in the same province. We estimate the model using a Bayeisan scheme and discuss how to calculate various marginal effects, including those from nonstandard covariates like squared, binary, and multicategorical variables. Our empirical results indicate strong evidence of positive correlation in voluntary retirement savings decisions among high-income and low-income workers in both rural and urban areas. We find that participation in the government-managed basic pension is the strongest predictor of having high voluntary retirement savings, while the effects of income and gender vary across income-area groups.

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Work-from-home and cities: An elementary spatial model

IF 3.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104086

Jan K. Brueckner

This paper analyzes the urban impacts of hybrid WFH in the simplest possible model, relying on Leontief utility and production functions and other simplifying assumptions. The analysis shows that introduction of WFH raises both the wage and household land consumption (raising worker utility) while shrinking the size of the business district and reducing business land rent. When WFH requires home work space, the city’s overall spatial size increases, with residential rents rising in the suburbs while falling near the center. The decline in business rent and the rotation of the residential rent contour match empirical evidence showing that WFH reduces office-building values and flattens the residential rent gradient.

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Administrative areas and regional identity formation: The case of East Germany

IF 3.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104088

Stefanie Gäbler , Kim Leonie Kellermann

Changing regional administrative structures may have unintended consequences for citizens’ identification with their respective regions. We exploit a historical quasi-experiment to provide novel evidence on the formation of sub-national identities with changing administrative boundaries. During the German Reunification in 1990, federal states in East Germany were re-established. Some counties were located at the intersection of former GDR districts and historical federal states, creating uncertainty about their future state affiliation. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we show that in counties with initially unclear state affiliation, voter turnout in state elections after 1990 decreases by up to 2.5 percentage points. Turnout in national and local elections does not show significant difference. We argue that the uncertainty about their regional affiliation diminished citizens’ political engagement by undermining their identification with the federal state level.

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Leases over real property

IF 3.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104087

Dylan R. Clarke

This paper develops a model in which housing incurs a property damage for which the tenant must sue in order to be made whole. The model is analyzed under both market rents and rent control regimes, as well as for tenants with limited wealth, bilateral (tenant) investment, coinsurance, and rent abatement. The model facilitates the evaluation of several policies, such as rent control, landlord–tenant laws, income redistribution, tenant’s insurance, and rent abatement. The model makes several predictions which are consistent with empirical findings in housing economics, such as why the poor occupy housing of worse condition and how laws shifting liability onto the landlord increase the quality of housing for poor tenants as well as increase rent prices. It also nests classic hypotheses, such as the Calabresi’s efficiency of strict liability rules and the least cost avoider, in addition to clarifications on Friedman’s prediction that rent control decreases investment.

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Neighborhood impacts on human capital accumulation of adolescents and young adults in Montevideo

IF 3.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104085

Santiago Acerenza , Nestor Gandelman , Daniel Misail

This paper explores the causal impacts of the neighborhood of residence on education outcomes for adolescents and young adults (15–24 years old) in Montevideo. We analyze educational trends from 1992 to 2019, revealing persistence and pronounced geographical segmentation between the affluent southeast and the more disadvantaged outskirts of the city. We model the neighborhood effects through the neighborhood average education level. We estimate their causal impact using a control function for addressing selection on unobservables. We find statistically significant results of a relatively large magnitude. We address heterogeneity of the effects and find that neighborhood effects are stronger for boys than girls, that family income buffers neighborhood effects, and that household education level and neighborhood education level are complements.

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Ethnicity and health at work during the COVID-19

IF 3.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104083

Joan Madia , Francesco Moscone , Catia Nicodemo

This paper explores how health-work-related illnesses and injuries have changed during the COVID-19 pandemic for different ethnic groups and by gender. We find that not all groups were affected in the same way. While almost all men in all ethnic groups were on average less likely to work during the pandemic period, women were more likely to work. We also find that Mixed Ethnic and Pakistani women who reported a higher probability of working in the reference week had a higher risk of illness/injuries at work. Meanwhile, White men and Other ethnic groups with a reduced probability of working during the pandemic had a lower risk of illness/injuries at work. Long-term illness varied by ethnicity and gender, with men experiencing a reduction and women an increase in physical and mental health issues. This research provides valuable insights into the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and work patterns of different ethnic groups and gender. Understanding and identifying these disparities is crucial for formulating targeted policies aimed at mitigating adverse effects and promoting equitable outcomes in regional studies and urban economics.

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Interaction of public and private employment: Evidence from a German government move

IF 3.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Pub Date : 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2025.104084

Giulia Faggio , Teresa Schlüter , Philipp vom Berge

We use the German government move from Bonn to Berlin in 1999 to explore the interaction between public and private sector employment within a local labor market. Our findings show a positive effect of public sector expansion on private sector employment, with a local multiplier of 1.32–1.35, mainly driven by the service sector. The policy impact is highly localized, strongest within 300 m of a relocation site, and evident one year after the relocation. Three quarters of new private sector jobs were created by establishments that did not exist before 1998. These newly created jobs disproportionally employ women, younger workers, individuals in managerial and professional roles, and those with lower levels of education.

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Skills and the city in China

IF 3.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Pub Date : 2024-12-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104082

Jianyong Fan , Nian Liu , Wei Tang

This paper examines the spatial distribution and urban wage premiums of skills in China using both population censuses and labor surveys. We document an increasing concentration and urban wage premiums of occupations requiring more cognitive tasks. In large cities, the quality of cognitive skill matching between workers and occupations is significantly enhanced. Additionally, we observe stronger learning effects for workers with higher cognitive skills in these cities. However, we do not detect an urban premium for workers with higher social skills. Instead, the returns to individual social skills are more pronounced in cities with weaker institutional environments.

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The elected official next door

IF 3.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104075

Daniel B. Jones , Randall Walsh , Jiangnan Zeng

This paper examines whether the election of a city council member generates highly localized benefits within their own neighborhoods. We use housing prices as a summary statistic to capture the numerous and difficult to observe ways in which local government allocates localized amenities. Drawing on data on North Carolina city council elections and the universe of housing transactions, we use a close-elections regression discontinuity strategy. We find that housing prices substantially increase for houses very close (within 0.2 miles) to a newly elected councilmember’s place of residence.

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Manhattan Transfer: Heterogeneous productivity effects of agglomeration in American authorship 曼哈顿转移：美国作者集聚的异质性生产力效应

IF 3.5 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Regional Science and Urban Economics

Pub Date : 2024-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104061

Lukas Kuld , Sara Mitchell , Christiane Hellmanzik

We investigate quantity and quality effects of agglomeration in the careers of American authors. We combine novel yearly data on publications and work location of 471 eminent authors with US Census data to analyse industry concentration and agglomeration economies from 1850 to 2000. While finding a positive overall effect of living in New York City on the publication propensity of literary works, we focus on the heterogeneity of the effect along three axes: decade, age, and length of residency in NYC. First, the effect size correlates with industry concentration and maturity. Second, authors immediately increase publications after arriving in NYC, while the effect wanes after around 10–15 years. Third, the effect is strongest for younger authors in their 20s and 30s. In addition, works published while an author lives in New York City are more likely to achieve critical acclaim and to have lasting influence in terms of present-day popularity.

我们研究了集聚效应在美国作家职业生涯中的数量和质量效应。我们将471位著名作家的出版物和工作地点的年度新数据与美国人口普查数据相结合，分析了1850年至2000年的产业集中和集聚经济。在发现居住在纽约市对文学作品出版倾向的总体积极影响的同时，我们关注了三个轴上影响的异质性：十年、年龄和在纽约市居住的时间。第一，效应大小与行业集中度和成熟度相关。其次，作者在到达纽约后立即增加出版物，而效果在大约10-15年后减弱。第三，对二三十岁的年轻作家的影响最大。此外，作者在纽约生活期间出版的作品更有可能获得评论界的好评，并就当今的受欢迎程度而言产生持久的影响。

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