We estimate the effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and a total of 128 DHS survey …
Researchers in the social sciences have increasingly employed nighttime lights (NTL) data to examine a variety of questions relating to various political, social and natural risks …
Do income shocks locally affect internal conflicts? To address this question, this paper employs a meta-regression analysis of 2,464 infranational estimates from 64 recent …
We propose a novel estimation procedure for models with endogenous variables in the presence of spatial correlation based on Eigenvector Spatial Filtering. The procedure, called …
Many press articles and TV news warn us about the unforeseen effects of climatic changes on the onset and development of conflicts. Every time a new study emerges, media news …
The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimated in January 2015 that 943,500 residents of Eastern Ukraine had already been displaced by the conflict, which began in …
This thesis links two topics of empirical economics: spatial econometrics and the Lasso estimator. Spatial econometrics is concerned with methods and models accounting for …