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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Geographic Clustering"”.
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Migration, Polarization, and Sorting in the American Electorate
<p>Geographic clustering has been linked to contemporary political polarization by jour- nalists and other researchers in recent years, most recently and notably by Bishop and Cushing (2008). In these accounts, clustering is motivated, in part, by shared tastes for combinations of place attributes …
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Geospatial analysis of preventable emergency department visits in Chicago, IL
… variables. While a few studies have integrated geographically-informed components into their analyses such as urban vs. rural distinction of hospital, no studies of misuse of EDs for PCED conditions were identified that utilized geographic information systems (GIS) to understand the locations of …
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Space and networks in the labor market
… advantages are created and exploited due to the geographic clustering of firms within the same industry. We focus on one of the Marshallian microfoundational processes which produces agglomeration economies, i.e., labor market pooling. According to economic theory, advantages are created between …
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Metrics and methods for social distance
… the integration of social flow data into the Geographic Information community. The body of this dissertation consists of three separate case studies in Chapters 3, 4 and 5 whose common theme is the integration of Social Distance as models of social processes in geographic space. Each chapter …
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AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES, INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION, AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
… and long-run effects of university activities on geographic clustering of economic activity, labor market composition and local productivity. I treat the designation of land-grant universities as a natural experiment after controlling for the confounding factors with a combination of synthetic …
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The relationship between geographic proximity and strategic posture: a longitudinal study of the U.S. fiberoptics industry
… of this study is to investigate implications of geographic location for firm strategy and for the competitive climate in emerging higher technology industries. Hypotheses are generated based on concepts from institutional theory, transaction costs economics, economic geography, and strategic …
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The Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Cardiometabolic Outcomes and Medication Adherence Among Vulnerable Populations in West Tennessee
… In addition, our study identified distinct geographic clustering of uncontrolled cardiometabolic conditions across Shelby County, with Hot Spots associated with adverse SDoH. Furthermore, adverse health behaviors, such as medication nonadherence, significantly mediated the association …
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Spatial Optimization Techniques for School Redistricting
… function through school districts, which are geographical areas where schools share the same administrative structure and are often coterminous with the boundary of a city or a county. School districts play an important role in the functioning of society. In a well-run school district with …