Growth and Convergence across the United States: Evidence from County-Level Data

By Matthew J. Higgins, Daniel Levy, A. Young. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006

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Sigma-Convergence Versus Beta-Convergence: Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data (2008, unknown): “Below we explore whether or not - convergence is occurring in the U.S. using the same county-level data that were used by Higgins et al. (2006) and Young et al. (2007).”
The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties (2011, unknown): “We argue that it is important to include nonmetropolitan counties in the analysis since, as Hammond and Thompson (2008) and Higgins et al. (2006) have shown, metropolitan and nonmetropolitan regions differ significantly in their responses to growth determinants.”
The Internet and Local Wages: A Puzzle † (2012, unknown): “Also related are Glaeser et al (1992), Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991), and Higgins et al (2006).”
The curse of natural resources: An empirical investigation of U.S. counties § (2011, methodology): “These proxies for human capital are consistent with those used in the economic growth literature (Mankiw et al., 1992; Higgins et al., 2006).”
Regional growth and finance in Europe : Is there a quality effect of bank efficiency? (2009, result): “…8 2.2 Banking quality ........................................................................................ 10 2.3 Data and regional allocation…”
Coal Mining and the Resource Curse in the Eastern United States (2015, unknown): “Several studies including Card (1993), Uusitalo and Conneelly (1998), Higgins et al. (2006) and Kane and Rouse (1993) use geographic proximity of colleges to isolate exogenous variation in educational decisions, while Maluccio (1998) uses distance to high schools.”