Growth and Change

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Volume 56, issue 1, 2025

Rethinking Gender Norms: A Review of Richard Reeve’s Book, Of Boys and Men. By Richard Reeves, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2022. $28.99 (hardcover), $19.95 (paperback), $16.95 (audiobook). ISBN: 9780815740667

Amanda Weinstein

Distance‐Based Agglomeration Externalities and the Survival of Logistics Firms: Evidence From a Publicly Developed Logistics Park

Nannan He, Ming Jian, Xing Fang, Guoqi Li and Sijing Liu

Deepening Megaregional Interrelatedness Through Migration: The Case of the Northern California Megaregion

Andre Comandon, Seva Rodnyansky and Marlon G. Boarnet

Local Effects of Education and Age Groups on Unemployment in Germany

Fabian Busch and Carsten Ochsen

Does Resource Industry Dependence Undermine Urban Resilience? Evidence From China

Qingxi Wang, Yueji Xin, Zhihua Tian, An Hu and Ye Liu

Input Tariff Cuts and the Spatial Distribution of Skilled Labor: Evidence From China

Wenhan Liu, Wei Xiao and Zhilong Qin

The Impact of Economic Growth Targets on Environmental Pollution: A Study From Chinese Cities

Yicheng Zhou, Zihan Zhang and Boqiang Lin

Whom You Connect With Matters: Innovation Collaboration Network Centrality and Innovative Productivity in Chinese Cities

Cui Zhang, Dandan Zhang, Yu Pan and Yanzhen Wang

Rural Entrepreneurship in the Face of Geodemographic Challenges

Yolanda Fuertes‐Callén, Beatriz Cuéllar‐Fernández and Adriana Serrano‐Magdalena

Revitalizing Cities: The 5R Framework Approach to Urban Retrofitting and Big Data Insights

Xinlin Ma, Yan Song, Fangzheng Lyu, Yang Yang, Yuhua Wang, Xijing Li and Shaopeng Zhong

Forms of Innovation and the Core‐Periphery Divide: (Non‐) Technological Innovation and Geo‐Remoteness in Israel

Emil Israel and Eyal Salinger

Industry 4.0 and the Importance of an Ecosystem‐Based Approach: An Empirical Investigation Based on a Mixed‐Method Analysis

James Boyer

How Do Cognitive Proximity and Knowledge Space Position Affect Firms' Innovation? Evidence From Micro and Small Manufacturing Firms in South Africa

Jefferson R. B. Galetti and Fiona Tregenna

Spiky Metropolitan Landscapes: An Urbanometric Analysis of Growing Agglomerations

Zeynep Elburz, Karima Kourtit and Peter Nijkamp

Regulation and Restructuring in the Craft Brewing Industry

Gavin Wood and Declan Martin

Regional Specializations in Green Incumbents and Green Start‐ups in the German Transport Sector

Hendrik Hansmeier, Sebastian Losacker, Johannes Bersch and Henning Kroll

Understanding the Catch‐Up Innovation in China: A Perspective of Local Government Competition

Jin Guo, Zhi Wei and Yingzhi Xu

Unemployment Polarisation and Club Convergence in Türkiye

Burhan Can Karahasan

The Multidimensional Approach to Innovation in the United States and Turkey

Bilge Armatlı Köroğlu and Neil Reid

Volume 55, issue 4, 2024

Growth of Green Total Factor Productivity in China: “Structural Dividend” or “Reform Dividend”?

Wenxing Jia, Shengnan Wu, Yang Yang and Xueliang Zhang

Intangible Capital as a Driver of Labor Productivity in Regions and Industries: Evidence of the Spanish Case

Mercedes Gumbau‐Albert

Impact of Cohesion Funds on Convergence Club's Economic Growth

Tomáš Oleš and Martin Hudcovský

Did the U.S. Fracking Boom Shale‐Shock Regional Patenting?

Luyi Han and John Winters

Residential Segregation of Foreign Immigrants in South Korea by Country‐of‐Birth Income

Chanyong Kim and Donghyun Kim

How Have American Migration Patterns Changed in the COVID Era?

Kevin Kane

Serving Innovation: Exploring Patent Agency Service Networks in China

Junsong Wang, Jie Qi, Fenghua Pan and Zhiqing Liu

Potentials for Reducing Spatial Inequalities in Innovation: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Theresa Bürscher and Thomas Scherngell

Official Turnover and Embodied Carbon Emissions: Evidence From Industrial Linkages in China's Prefecture‐Level Cities

Xuheng Wang and Jieping Chen

The Changing Geography of Innovation: Comparing Urban, Suburban and Rural Areas

Adelheid Holl, Catalina Martínez and Clara Casado

Foreign Aid, Infrastructure, and the Inclusive Growth Agenda in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Isaac K. Ofori, Nathanael Ojong and Emmanuel Y. Gbolonyo

The Growth of Cross‐Border Regions Toward “Two Countries, One Park”: A Case Study of the Mohan–Boten Cross‐Border Cooperation Zone

Zhouying Song, Qiuhui Yao and Weidong Liu

Between Prosperity and Preservation: An Empirical Analysis of the Interaction Between Economic Development and Environmental Awareness

Keyi Duan, Mingyao Cao, Nurhafiza Abdul Kader Malim and Yan Song

Socio‐Economic Development Performance and Convergence Among Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies in Ghana

Zurikanen Iddrisu and Jean‐Claude Thill

Volume 55, issue 3, 2024

Cluster heterogeneity and efficiency of innovation network—Evidence from Shanghai and Taizhou in China

Guodong Yan and Lin Zou

Using big data to study small places: Small‐town voting patterns in the 2020 U.S. presidential election

Jennifer Mapes

The higher‐ranking local officials and local economic growth: Evidence from China

Yuan Li, Chuanjiang Yu, Yue Luo and Xinju He

The impact of regional integration on PM2.5 concentrations—Quasi‐natural experimental evidence from city economic coordination committee

Sijia Li and Lihua Wu

Innovation and wage inequalities: Evidence from Brazilian regions

Bianca Villamarim de Oliveira, Eduardo Gonçalves and Juliana Gonçalves Taveira

Effects of tourism on socio‐economic well‐being and its inter‐regional convergence: Evidence from China's 291 cities

Fubiao Zhu, Xiaona Cao, Delin Zhuang, Shengwu Jin and Xueting Yang

Do high housing prices inhibit entrepreneurial activity?—Evidence from Yangtze River Delta cities, China

Zhang Juanfeng, Lin Yupiaopiao, Han Rui, Li Lele and Zeng Hui

Volume 55, issue 2, 2024

Does diversified environmental regulation effect the foreign direct investment inflows and technological innovation? A three‐stage least square approach

Lingcai Liu, Dongbei Bai, Shah Fahad and Ilhan Ozturk

Estimating the economic effects of US state and local fiscal policy: A synthetic control method matching‐regression approach

Dan Rickman and Hongbo Wang

Regional development policy in Galilee periphery in Israel

Herscovici Arie and Akirav Osnat

Migration choices for farming households in rural areas: Why new countryside locations are important for the inhabitants of traditional agricultural areas in central China

Haojing Shen, Yan Song and Zhengying Shan

Fertility divergence across large and small areas

Xiaoyin Li and John Winters

How do university‐industry collaborations benefit innovation? Direct and indirect outcomes of different collaboration types

Utku Ali Rıza Alpaydın and Rune Fitjar

The spatial‐temporal evolution of urban development patterns in Chinese cities: Dynamics and interpretations

Wenzheng Li and Stephan Schmidt

Industrial collaborative agglomeration and green economic efficiency—Based on the intermediary effect of technical change

Haichao Yu, Shangze Dai and Haiqian Ke

State‐led urbanization and technological innovation: A quasi‐natural experiment from county‐to‐district conversion in China

Chong Wang and Lei Wang

Volume 55, issue 1, 2024

How do China's villages self‐organize collective land use under the background of rural revitalization? A multi‐case study in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guizhou provinces

Tianxiao Zhou, Zhiwen Luo and Xiaobin Zhang

Intellectual property system and urban green innovation: Evidence from China

Siying Yang, Fengshuo Liu, Gege Wang and Dawei Feng

Citizenship of the agricultural transfer population and property income‐‐empirical evidence from the Chinese region

Yongqi Zhang and Xi Chen

Do female labor‐migrated households have lower productivity? Empirical evidence from rural rice farms in Bangladesh

Md Nazirul Islam Sarker, Md Abdus Salam and R. B. Radin Firdaus

Agglomeration factors and the geography of growing early‐stage businesses in Chile

Félix Modrego, Miguel Atienza and Leónidas Hernández

Toward a more comprehensive shift‐share analysis: An illustration using regional data

Claudia Montanía, Miguel Márquez, Teresa Fernández‐Núñez and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings

Exploring the spatial pattern and influencing factors of intercity capital flows from 2005 to 2019: A case study of Yangtze River Delta region, China

Zherui Li, Feng Zhen and Wei Liu

Linkage‐ and structure‐based technological proximity and interregional spillovers of innovation growth

Yuanxi Li, Tieshan Sun and Yukang Sun

Spatial agglomeration of information services industry and its evolution: Evidence from the Pearl River Delta, China

Ling Zhang

Identification and characterization of urban polycentric structure based on points of interest in Shenyang, China

Feilong Hao, Ming Lu, Tingting Yu and Shijun Wang

Recognizing the nexus between grid infrastructure, renewable energy, net interregional transmission and carbon emissions: Evidence from China

Jia Liang and Yongpei Wang

The elusive role of urban form, centrality and scale in the absence of a metropolitan planning agenda: Central European perspective

Jiří Malý, Marek Lichter and Tomáš Krejčí

The economic hierarchy, linkage, and directions between the three northeastern provinces of China and Russian Far East

Shuang Xu, Nanchen Chu and Xiangli Wu

Climate change and cooling equity: Spatial dynamics of vulnerable populations

Sungyop Kim and Dohyung Kim

Regional diversification in Brazil: The role of relatedness and complexity

Mariane Santos Françoso, Ron Boschma and Nicholas Vonortas

Systems of innovation: Path of economic transition and differences in institutions in central and Eastern Europe?

Mariia Shkolnykova, Lasse Steffens and Jan Wedemeier

Cultural diversity and regional innovation: Evidence from China

Mengmeng Guo, Yixiang Yu and Jingjing Ye

Innovation and entrepreneurship education in China: Responding to social change. By Xiaozhou Xu, Hangzhou: Springer. 2021. pp. XXI+389. $152.13 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐981‐16‐3723‐0

Renzhong Peng and Cai Qi

Survival of new and small retail businesses facing mega‐retailers in non‐metropolitan areas—The case of Walmart in the province of Quebec

Ismaëlh Cissé and Jean Dubé

Domestic or export: What is basic at the NUTS 2 regional level? A spatial endogenous regional growth model applied in the EU

Pascal Ricordel

Does information and communication technology improve labor productivity? Recent evidence from the Southeast Asian emerging economies

Agus Salim, Jun Wen, Anas Usman Bello, Firsty Ramadhona Amalia Lubis, Rifki Khoirudin, Uswatun Khasanah, Lestari Sukarniati and Muhammad Safar Nasir

Analysing governance‐led infrastructural development nexus in sub‐Saharan Africa: Does the moderating role of institutional quality matter?

Michael Appiah, Stephen Taiwo Onifade and Bright Akwasi Gyamfi

Craft breweries and residential property values

Yang Zhou, Neil Reid and Michael C. Carroll

Addressing spatial dependence when estimating technical efficiency: A spatialized data envelopment analysis of regional productive performance in the European Union

Julian Ramajo, Miguel Márquez and Geoffrey J. D. Hewings

Understanding the contemporary history of urban economic change: The case of entrepreneurial innovation

Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson

Empirical regional economics: Economic base theory, models and applications. By Richard S.Conway Jr. Springer Texts in Business and Economics, Springer. 2022. 275 pp. ISBN 978‐3‐030‐76645‐0

Courtney Bower

Spillover effects of fiscal decentralization on access to basic social services in Burkina Faso

Oumarou Zallé and Pousseni Bakouan

Practitioners' ability to retool the economy: The role of agency in local economic resilience to plant closures in Ontario

Jesse Sutton, Godwin Arku, Richard Sadler, John Hutchenreuther and Michael Buzzelli