Three Essays on the Geography of Economic Opportunity

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Three Essays on the Geography of Economic Opportunity

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This thesis presents three independent essays that examine the relationship between geographical factors and economic outcomes. The first paper examines the relationship between intergenerational income mobility and income inequality across regions. We identify a cohort of sons born between 1963 and 1982 from the New Zealand Longitudinal Census (NZLC), and document income elasticity. A general trend emerges, illustrating that income mobility falls as income inequality increased from 1981 to 1...

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Doctoral

Date created

2023

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So, Yun Joo

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/63878

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