Does broadband matter to the economy? Numerous studies have focused on whether there is a digital divide, on regulatory impacts and investment incentives, and on the factors influencing where broadband is available. However, given how recently broadband has been adopted, little empirical research has investigated its economic impact. This paper presents estimates of the effect of broadband on a...

One of the strongest motives in life is the desire to ‘keep up with the Joneses’. In economic debate, this tendency is reflected in a concern with international rankings of various kinds. These rankings are frequently used to bolster a variety of spurious arguments. A typical form of the argument is ‘Australia has declined relative to country X on scale Y, and we should therefore adopt policy Z...

Economic outcomes are increasingly important in cancer research. This article provides an introduction to the nature and measurement of economic outcomes in cancer and gives the reader entry points to a considerable literature on measuring economic endpoints in health and medicine. Economic outcomes data are defined here as measures of resources consumed in prevention, detection, and treatment ...

At the heart of urban economics are agglomeration economies, which drive existence and extent cities. This paper estimates effects, exploring simple very nuanced measures economic density to explain household income wage differences across cities in six Sub-Saharan African countries. A key aspect work is that we define consistently space based on fine scale measures, order gauge city. The evide...

the method for measuring the congestion of noura et al. [a.a. noura, f. ‎hosseinzadeh lotfi, g.r. jahanshahloo, s. ‎fanati rashidi, r.p. barnett, a new method for measuring congestion in data envelopment analysis, socio-economic planning sciences, 44 (2010) 240-246] ,there is no problem for congestion detection in the case of one input and one output but in higher space is not able to detect co...