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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Spatial spillover"”.
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Modeling Spatial Spillover Effects From Rental to Owner Housing: The Case of Seattle
… sensitive to which years are pooled and which spatial subsets are taken. The fact that the pre-post relationship is not found to be robust in the case of Seattle is cause for concern since it is at the heart of the analysis. Spatial fixed effects did not fully control for spatially correlated …
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Epidemiology of diabetes and related mortality: early screening, socioecological determinants, and the value of prevention
… individual level type 2 diabetes risk factors, spatial spillover effect of diabetes-related mortality ecological risk factors, and individuals’ loss of well-being due to diabetes. In the first essay, titled “Diabetes Risk Prediction: Multivariate Nonlinear Interaction Approach,” I argue that the …
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Decentralization, Structural Change and Regional Disparities in Colombia
… disparities. The results indicate that spatial spillover effects increase the intra and inter regional inequalities in educational infrastructure. While decentralization is associated with higher infrastructure growth rates, the reduction in inequality seems to be clearer under …
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Evaluating the impact of online influencers on retail property rent : a case study in New York City
… and evaluating its impact on retail rent using spatial econometric methods, in which we also examined the spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity in New York's retail rent market. We use social media data mining and network analysis techniques to examine influencers and information diffusion …
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Internal Migration and House Prices in the UK
… settle in regions of slower house price growth. Spatial autoregressive (SAR) estimations reveal a significant co-movement of house prices and net migration in neighbouring regions, implying spatial spillover effects of the migration effect on housing.
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Civil conflict and international migration in Nepal
… paid to the endogeneity of emigration and to spatial spillover effects. In localities with a greater increase in emigration, the net enrolment rate in secondary education rises and child labour for older children decreases. A possible channel for this effect is that migration and remittances …
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Spatial aspects of infant mortality and informal workers: The case of Ceara State -Brazil
… methods of evaluation do not consider its spatial spillover effect. This effect occurs when improvements in this health care program in one municipality affect not only infant mortality in that municipality but also the infant mortality of neighboring municipalities. The second essay …
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Economic Analyses of Crime in England and Wales
… In our third study, we allow crime rate to have spatial spillover effect, in other words, the crime rate in one area is affected by, in addition to its local crime-influential factors, the crime rates and crime-related factors in its neighbouring areas. We demonstrate this result by constructing …
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Integrating AI and GIS for Climate-Driven Malaria Monitoring and Demand-Based Resource Distribution and Supply Optimization in Low Developing Countries
… mixed-methods approach, the research utilized Spatial Autoregressive Models (SAR), Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR), and Random Forest machine learning (R2 = .86) to analyze transmission dynamics. Key findings reveal that minimum temperature is the strongest predictor of transmission (p …
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The economics of military spending, conflict and growth
… Chapter three deals with the transnational spatial spillover effects of conflict on neighbouring countries. It moves beyond using geographical dis-tance as a spillover measurement and allows for economic and political distances. The initial empirical results suggest that conflict has a …
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A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Selected Local Labour Market Outcomes in New Zealand
… respond to local or external shocks, taking spatial dependencies into account. The first aspect considered is the change in regional employment outcomes in New Zealand from the 1980’s to 2006. This is examined using shiftshare techniques supplemented by exploratory spatial data analysis. The …
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Essays on Bank Spatial Competition, Stability and Resolution
This thesis empirically examines bank spatial competition, stability, and resolution. It is comprised of three empirical studies that investigate risk-return dynamics from three different aspects within the rural banking setting of Indonesia from 2014 to 2018. The specific focus is on bank …
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The influence of planning interventions on the evolution of neighbourhood deprivation in London
… I also take into account a significant extent of spatial spillover effects in this modelling. The findings from the case study show that, having controlled for a wide range of lagged and simultaneous influences, the strategic planning initiatives that are represented by the OA, RA and housing …
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Three essays on the spatial analysis of sustainable dairy farming in New Zealand
… the impact of farmer choice on the environment. Spatial spillover effects, which are considered as important issues at either the regional level or farm-level decision-making, are addressed in all three essays. As the New Zealand dairy industry faces the challenge of increasing productivity and …
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The effect of financial development, financial agglomeration, and financial constraint on China’s economic development
… on the economic growth in Chinese provinces, the spatial effect of financial agglomeration spillovers on the economic growth among three different regions of China, and the financial constraint on firms’ innovation activities. Firstly, to better understand China's financial industry and the …
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Three essays on spatial econometrics with an emphasis on testing
Spatial Modeling has been one of the important parts in Applied Econometrics as well as Econometrics Theory in the past thirty years, not only because of the nature that the geographic locations and interactions play a crucial role in forming behavior, but also because of the challenging problems …
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An empirical study of attitudes towards green urban development
This study focuses on how spatial circumstances affect property owners’ preference toward sustainable urban development, in the form of three-essays. In the first essay, property owners’ preference toward the concept of compact development is identified. Compact development is an increasingly …
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Does the business cycle matter for convergence testing? Evidence from U.S. commuting zone level data, 1973-2007
This research investigated regional growth patterns under different economic environments. Based on the varying innovation capacities that occur at different stages of the business cycle, I hypothesize that in the more advanced stages of regional development, regional income inequality increases …
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Collaboration in scientific digital ecosystems: A socio-technical network analysis
… <p>The first paper applies network theory and spatial probit autocorrelative modelling technique to evaluate how member developer’s positioning in digital community correlate with his/her productivity. The second paper looks at the dynamics of developer’s participation in online developers’ …