Urban concentration and economic growth: checking for specific regional effects

Alain Pholo Bala ()

No 2009038, LIDAM Discussion Papers CORE from Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

Abstract: By using a semiparametric specification, we examine the impact of urban concentration in economic growth on different groups of countries that we classify according to a geographical criterion or according to their level of development. Facing a significant proportion of missing data, we handle that problem with a multiple imputation algorithm as advised in the statistical litterature. Therefore using a Bayesian estimation we obtain parametric coefficients and non parametric curves. Then we may perform Yatchew's tests of equality of non parametric effects to check out if the model specification is the same in the different groups of countries.

Keywords: urban primacy; economic growth; missing data; imputation; semiparametric estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C30 C49 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-05-01
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