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Testing Nonlinear New Economic Geography Models [Dataset]

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Title Testing Nonlinear New Economic Geography Models [Dataset]
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JH3JKU
 
Creator Eckhardt Bode
Jan Mutl
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description We test a New Economic Geography (NEG) model for U.S. counties, employing a new strategy that allows us to bring the full NEG model to the data, and to assess selected elements of this model separately. We find no empirical support for the full NEG model. Regional wages in the U.S. do not respond to local wage shocks in the way predicted by the model. We show that the main reason for this is that the model does not predict either the migration patterns induced by local wage shocks or the repercussions of this migration for regional wages correctly.
 
Subject New Economic Geography
Spatial econometrics
 
Date 2010
 
Type aggregate data