This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and
innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation …

Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income, and
unemployment rates. A growing class of place-based policies attempts to address these …

内容提要: 本文在增长回归框架下, 应用Arellano 与Bond 等人倡导的动态面板数据方法(
system2GMM 估计) 和传统的固定效应估计考察了教育对地区收入差异的影响. 实证分析发现 …

城市发展的规模经济效应有利于提高劳动力个人的就业概率, 而不像通常人们所认为的那样,
外来移民会挤占原有居民的就业机会. 使用工具变量, 对个人层面的就业决定模型进行估计发现 …

Smart City policies have attracted relevant attention and funding over the last few years.
While the time seems now ripe to conclude that such policies have a positive impact on …

Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students
randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 …

We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000
universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th …

We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local
determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms …

A rigorous, pathbreaking analysis demonstrating that a country's prosperity is directly related
in the long run to the skills of its population. In this book Eric Hanushek and Ludger …

Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the
common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting stable families …