105 research outputs found
"Agglomeration Economies within IT-Producing and IT-Consuming Industries in U.S. Regions"
No full textThis paper deals with the effects of the geographic concentration of economic activity on productivity through agglomeration economies in the U.S. economy. Our empirical study extends the literature on agglomeration economies in two directions. First we measure and compare the effects on productivity of geographic concentration in either information technology related activity (the IT sector) or in all other economic activities (the non-IT sector). Second we follow Jorgenson’s (2002) reasoning regarding the significance of the differences between IT-producing sectors and IT-using sectors and assess the differential effects of concentration in IT-producing sectors and concentration in IT-using sectors on productivity. We utilize four measures of agglomeration and analyze effects at two levels of geographic disaggregation: U.S. states and U.S. counties. We perform the analysis using a model drawn from the growth accounting literature in which total labor productivity in a region is the dependent variable. It is modeled as a function of the region’s capital-output ratio, the quality of the region’s labor supply as measured by the level of education, and an agglomeration variable measured by concentration in the IT or non-IT sectors or in the IT-producing or IT-using sectors. The cross section estimates for a single year yield mixed results. We find weak evidence in favor of an effect of concentration of IT activity on productivity at the state level. We find stronger effects on productivity at the county level from concentration in IT-producing sectors.Agglomeration Economies, Information Technology, Productivity
Demographics of Opioid Prescriptions
No full textThe author ran Linear Probability Model and Logistic Model regressions on data from the 2017 Medical Expenditures Panel Survey to determine demographics of opioid prescriptions. The dependent variable was opioid prescription received (Y/N) and independent variables included age, education level, relative income, race, insurance status, etc. Results of the regressions showed that people with public or private insurance are more likely to be prescribed an opioid, that the problem mainly affects white people, and that as educational attainment increases, likelihood of opioid prescription decreases
Delaware, Kent, New Castle and Sussex Economic Profiles
No full textDelaware's job growth is again positive after a period of negative growth. This weakness took the form of declining payrolls in 2001 and 2002 and zero growth in 2003
Measuring the First State
No full textThis document is designed to describe the various data available for measuring the Delaware economy. This document is a guide to the most requested economic data series for the first state
The Fiscal and Economic Impacts of the Wilmington Riverfront
No full textThe Riverfront Development Corporation of Delaware (RDC) has contracted with the Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research at the University of Delaware to measure the fiscal revenue and economic activity generated by the riverfront
Pennsylvania Casinos’ Cannibalization of Regional Gambling Revenues
No full textGambling opportunities are expanding rapidly in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic area. Fifteen gambling venues have opened since 1996. The introduction of these venues has the potential to shift the balance of gambling activity away from New Jersey, which had enjoyed a monopoly position in the area for decades. Delaware and, more recently, Pennsylvania have entered the marketplace, raising the question of whether aggregate gambling activity has increased in the area, and whether all states have benefited. Contrary to previous research, a multivariate analysis reveals that aggregate gambling revenue among the three states has not increased with the introduction of Pennsylvania gambling venues. The research extends the literature by including Delaware in the analysis, which has drawn significant gamblers from Pennsylvania and the greater region, and by greatly expanding the data employed. In the Philadelphia-Northern Delaware-Atlantic City market (where the competition of gambling revenue is most intense), there is empirical evidence that the introduction of gambling in Pennsylvania has decreased the overall volume of gambling
"Why Does the Relationship between Economic Status and Child Health Strengthen for Older Children in the U.S.? Evidence from the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics"
No full textCase, Lubotsky, and Paxson (2002), using cross-sectional data, found a positive relationship between health and income and that the income relationship becomes more protective of children from higher income families as children age. Currie and Stabile (2003) point out that panel data allow the researcher to differentiate between the mechanisms underlying this relationship. Using a panel of Canadian children, they find that low-SES children respond to health shocks in the same way as high-SES children but that low-SES children, compared to high-SES children, are subject to more shocks as they age. To our knowledge we are unaware of any studies of the gradient that use panels of U.S. children. Our study utilizes the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey and the Child Development Supplements of the PSID. Our results for U.S. children are contrary to those found for children in Canada.
The Relationship between Economic Status and Child Health: Evidence from the United States
No full textAnne Case et al. (2002), using cross-sectional data, found a positive relationship between children's health and income, with income's protective effect increasing with age. Janet Currie and Mark Stabile (2003), using a panel of Canadian children, found that low- and high-SES children respond similarly to health shocks, but the low-SES children are subject to more shocks as they age. Our study examines this relationship using panel data for US children. We find some support for the latter result of Currie and Stabile but also evidence that low- and high-SES children respond differently to specific health shocks. (JEL D31, I12, J13)
The effects of air quality regulations on the location decisions of pollution-intensive manufacturing plants
No full textRegulatory policies, Environmental regulations, Interjurisdictional competition, R38, Q28, H73,
"Not So Footloose after All: Locational Behavior of Information Technology Establishments in the United States, 1989-1998"
No full textAmong the benefits that technology can provide is greater connectivity among economic agents. Commerce now occurs across great geographic distances at nominal transaction costs. Technology, therefore, seems to have the potential to unshackle economic agents from their suppliers and customers, enabling them to seek out alternative locations without being at a comparative disadvantage to other businesses. This possibility has spawned the “death of distance” notion that distance no longer matters, that technology has made all locations equal. Such thinking has been encouraged by phenomena such as the widespread “outsourcing” of many back-office and service functions by U.S. firms and/or the location of many of these functions in India and other foreign countries.industrial location, distance, footloose, information technology, establishments births, agglomeration economies
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