Essays on Sub-national Economic Growth: Evidence from A Global Sample

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 d...

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Main Author: Ruan, Dachao
Other Authors: Yang, Fang
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2015
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-07082015-135920/