{"title":"Educational and gender heterogeneity of the rural-urban earnings premium: New evidence from Norway","authors":"George C. Galster , Liv Osland","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103989","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We explore urban earnings premiums for young, native, rural-to-urban movers in Norway. Using an augmented difference-in-differences estimator (DiD-TR) on microdata we challenge previous claims about urban earnings premium's size and sources. Conventional econometric estimators understate the static premium and overstate dynamic premiums. We find that migrants exhibit lower mean but faster pre-move earnings growth than non-migrants. Post-move, the static earnings premium dominates. The observed trajectory is related to frequent pre-move changes of industrial sector, presumably to obtain better job-worker matches. Post-move, these changes occur less frequently. Highly educated females exhibit largest static premiums (34%), less-educated females least (24%), males an intermediate amount. Our findings suggest that cities primarily generate earnings premiums through agglomeration-based efficiencies and superior job-worker matches varying heterogeneously by education and gender.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 103989"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046224000139/pdfft?md5=fb92a05c679981718cf4f2064d6e2ada&pid=1-s2.0-S0166046224000139-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140041882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The economic impact of UNESCO World Heritage: Evidence from Italy","authors":"Enrico Bertacchini , Federico Revelli , Roberto Zotti","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103996","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the impact of the UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) inscription on income and property values in Italian municipalities with heritage sites inscribed during the past two decades. To address the selection bias and identify the causal impact of inscription, we focus on municipalities having sites included in the national ‘tentative list’ (i.e., a list of candidates for subsequent nomination) and exploit the plausibly exogenous timing of inscription conditional upon being on the list. The evidence from a heterogeneity-robust event study analysis suggests that WHL listing has a significant impact on income and property prices in urban areas. Possible underlying mechanisms are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 103996"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046224000206/pdfft?md5=42114533b6c35dd510394b8e1fcaba0a&pid=1-s2.0-S0166046224000206-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140030733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of neighborhood characteristics in explaining political party residential segregation","authors":"Keith Ihlanfeldt , Cynthia Fan Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103992","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103992","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>High levels of neighborhood political residential segregation have recently been documented for the U.S. This has raised concerns, based on the argument that more politically homogeneous neighborhoods promote extremism and ideological intensity, resulting in this same extremism displayed by elected politicians. Using tens of thousands of single-family home sales from South Florida, our purpose is to examine the extent to which neighborhood observable descriptors can explain party segregation. Our results reveal significant differences between Democrat and Republican home buyers in the types of neighborhoods they choose. In comparison to Democrats, Republicans more frequently chose neighborhoods where a larger percentage of workers have short commutes, homes are on average larger in size, there are fewer restaurants and shops, population density is lower, and Hispanics are a smaller percentage of residents. These differences are found to be important in explaining neighborhood party segregation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 103992"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139927756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Measuring aggregate land values using individual city land value gradients","authors":"Nathaniel Harris","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103995","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103995","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Aggregate land value is useful for a variety of research purposes including measuring the social surplus generated by cities and evaluating urban development policies. Nevertheless, only one previous study, Albouy et al., (2018), has attempted to measure cross-sectionally comparable aggregate land values for U.S. cities. That study relied on vacant or near-vacant land sales and used a single pooled aggregate estimate of the land value function. This research uses land values imputed by Larson et al., (2021) to estimate land value gradients for individual cities. Furthermore, the city boundary is measured using estimates of population density functions. Aggregate land value estimates from Albouy et al., (2018) and the individual city gradient approach used here are tested against the prediction of the Rosen, (1974)-Roback, (1982) model, that land value should rise with variables reflecting natural amenity. The individual city gradient approach produces estimates of intercity variation in aggregate land value that agree well with those in Albouy et al., (2018) and are consistent with theoretical expectations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"106 ","pages":"Article 103995"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140055575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Energy-efficient investments in housing","authors":"Kelly C. Bishop, Ozgen Kiribrahim-Sarikaya","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103994","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103994","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In recent years, many papers in environmental economics have considered the household’s decision to invest in energy-efficient technologies for their home. The vast majority of these studies have concluded that investment levels in these technologies are sub-optimal for a variety of reasons. In this paper, we synthesize the suggested drivers of these investment wedges and propose a dynamic modeling framework of a housing choice and an energy-efficient-investment choice that includes the proposed channels. We discuss the estimation challenges associated with this model and conclude with suggestions for future research.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103994"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140009160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inter-municipal cooperation cloud and tax administrative costs","authors":"Naruki Notsu","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103991","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103991","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The influence of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) on municipal finances remains underexplored. This study focuses on implementing the inter-municipal cooperation cloud (IMC cloud), a pioneering digital framework that facilitates cooperation among municipalities in Japan. The findings indicate that introducing the IMC cloud results in a decrease of approximately 5% in tax administrative costs. A further examination reveals that the IMC cloud offers returns to scale via cost sharing and promotes operational improvements, thereby driving savings in tax administration costs. These findings suggest the possibility that cost savings through operational improvements are an overlooked aspect in the existing studies on municipal collaboration context.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 103991"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139927770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristian Behrens , Sergei Kichko , Jacques-Francois Thisse
{"title":"Working from home: Too much of a good thing?","authors":"Kristian Behrens , Sergei Kichko , Jacques-Francois Thisse","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103990","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103990","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We develop a general equilibrium model with skilled workers who can and unskilled workers who cannot work from home (WFH). Firms choose the amount of time they require workers in the office, whereas workers choose to either work on-site or hybrid, splitting working time between office and home. The endogenous work arrangements determine productivity, wages, and demand for residential and commercial real estate. We find that firms ‘outsource’ workers to their homes to save on real estate costs, and in doing so push beyond the WFH share that maximizes skilled workers’ productivity. This effect is more pronounced if land-use regulations are strict, thus showing another channel through which the latter may reduce productivity. More efficient information and telecommunication technologies allow firms to shift office expenditures toward skilled workers who invest more in home working space. In a nutshell, WFH may well be the ‘new margin of offshoring’ for firms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 103990"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046224000140/pdfft?md5=6c7df908b5bbdf9a62bbfd89b8008190&pid=1-s2.0-S0166046224000140-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139927769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Long-run effects on county employment rates of demand shocks to county and commuting zone employment","authors":"Timothy J. Bartik","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103988","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103988","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper estimates the long-run effects on a county's prime-age employment rate of labor demand shocks to both the county and its overlying commuting zone (CZ). These effects are allowed to vary with local “distress” (a low baseline employment rate of the county or CZ), and with the size of the demand shock. In more distressed CZs, a county's employment rate is more affected by county or CZ shocks. As a result, targeting or reallocating jobs to more distressed CZs will tend to raise employment rates. If a county is relatively distressed compared to its CZ, targeting job shocks at that county has greater effects on county employment rates. Reallocating CZ jobs or job shocks towards more distressed counties within a CZ results in greater effects on the CZ's average employment rate. In addition, a CZ shock's effects on a county's employment rate tend to be higher if the CZ's baseline demand-driven expected growth trend is below average. This is particularly true in CZs whose baseline distress was average or low.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 103988"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139883129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of the earthquake in Central Italy on the depopulation of the affected territories","authors":"Davide Dottori","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103985","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Peripheral and demographically fragile territories could be less resilient to the impact of large natural shocks such as earthquakes, but causal evidence is still limited, in particular for Western Europe. By leveraging data at municipal level, this paper studies the effects on the resident population of a large earthquake that affected a wide area in Central Italy in 2016. The demographic decline that the area was already experiencing before the event significantly worsened afterwards. In order to identify the earthquake’s impact a diff-in-diff event-study model is applied, thereby testing whether the control group (made up of similar municipalities in terms of geo-morphological and predetermined urbanization characteristics) provides a comparable population pattern before the event. The results show that the earthquake significantly exacerbated the population decrease, with the impact widening over time and corresponding to almost two fifths of the reduction actually observed. Although statistically significant for the whole area, the impact was more intense for the municipalities that suffered the most damage. An increasing effect on the share of elderly population was also detected. The overall impact was mostly driven by a worsening in net internal migration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 103985"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139646504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does the winner take it all? Federal policies and political extremism","authors":"Gianmarco Daniele , Amedeo Piolatto , Willem Sas","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103986","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.103986","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Whether citizens like or dislike federal policies often depends on regional differences. Because of geography, (economic) history or other path-dependent factors, certain regions are perceived to get more out of the union than others. We show that citizens, therefore, have a strategic incentive to elect Federal delegates that are more extreme than the representative voter. The intensity of such strategic delegation is U-shaped in expected benefits. The predictions of our model hence rationalise the voting differences we observe in the data between national and EU elections.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"105 ","pages":"Article 103986"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046224000103/pdfft?md5=9349f32d8d5c81974b527d9ced172c48&pid=1-s2.0-S0166046224000103-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139646537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}