... of employment in each area. Spatial economics Gravity models Moran's I Entropy Econophysics Spatial autocorrelation United States A12 B1 B27 C31 F10 F20 R30 Funding: The authors were solely responsible for the design, execution, and analysis of the study. No external...

... Spillovers GVAR C31 C58 E44 In the European Monetary Union (EMU), one of the major risks is financial contagion. The contagion’s level is strictly connected to the relationships among countries and can be induced by structural macroeconomic factors (Hernández and Valdés, 2001). The magnitude...

... Spatial dependence Poverty Geographical proximity Institutional spillovers Quasi-maximum likelihood (QML) C31 C33 O11 The prevalence of poverty across sub-Saharan African (SSA, hereafter) countries has raised serious concerns among scholars and policymakers and brings the issue...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Personality traits Education Quantile regressions Nonlinear effects USA C31 I21 J24 Predicting educational attainment from personality scores is an important problem. As Professor James Heckman described in his own words...

... regression Wages Personal contacts C14 C23 C31 J22 J28 There are different concepts of personal contacts. Loury (1977) used the term “personal contacts” to describe the resources inherent in family and community relations that are useful for developing cognitive and social skills...

... extremes. 07 09 2017 31 03 2018 10 07 2018 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only India Distribution Income Inequality Gini coefficient Income distribution Isograph Pro-poor growth C16 C46 C31 D31 O15 P46...

... I18 C31 C33 The formal yardstick competition relies on the assumption that voters do not have perfect information about the ideal level of public services that a government should offer and compare expenditures and taxes in neighboring jurisdictions (Besley and Case, 1995). By comparing...