scholarly journals Local Public Goods and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Guillouzouic ◽  
Emeric Henry ◽  
Joan Monras
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Local Public Goods

Spillovers from Local Market Human Capital and the Spatial Distribution of Productivity in Malaysia

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy G. Conley ◽  
Fredrick Flyer ◽  
Grace R Tsiang
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Spatial Correlation ◽  
Wage Differentials ◽  
Estimating Equations ◽  
Empirical Method ◽  
Local Public Goods ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Economic Distance

Abstract This paper examines whether spillovers from local market human capital are important in explaining the distribution of productivity across Malaysia. We develop an empirical method for describing local human capital distributions based on the idea that spillovers are limited in scope by costs of interaction or economic distance between agents. We use estimates of the economic distance between agents to construct measures of local market human capital based on schooling rates of the population within a given radius. These measures are then used in estimating equations obtained from a simple local public goods model. Our regressions are estimated using spatial GMM, allowing for general spatial correlation across observations as a function of economic distance. We find positive wage and rent differentials associated with local human capital, evidence consistent with productive human capital spillovers. Our results for rent differentials obtain with two distinct human capital measures; however, those for wage differentials depend on the human capital measure used.

Voluntary Cooperation in Local Public Goods Provision: An Experimental Study

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Angelovski ◽  
Daniela Di Cagno ◽  
Werner GGth ◽  
Francesca Marazzi ◽  
Luca Panaccione
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Local Public Goods ◽  
Public Goods Provision ◽  
Voluntary Cooperation

Bureaucracy and the ?publicness? of local public goods

Public Choice ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Gary Wyckoff
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Local Public Goods
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