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Essays On Sub-National Economic Growth: Evidence From A Global Sample, Dachao Ruan
Essays On Sub-National Economic Growth: Evidence From A Global Sample, Dachao Ruan
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation, I make three important contributions to the literature on regional economics. In Chapter 2, I construct a measure of early development, urban population density (urban population relative to total land area), that is novel to the growth literature, and apply GIS techniques to define and locate regions/cities and obtain geographic and historical measures across regions and cities. Chapter 3 investigates the persistence in sub-national development over the past 150 years. I find that regions that had a relatively higher urban population density in 1850 tend to be relatively more developed today. Geographic and climatic characteristics are significantly …