Are there different convergence local behaviors hidden under the regional level? An analysis for the US States and counties with multilevel approach

Díaz Dapena Alberto (), Fernando Rubiera Morollón and Dusan Paredes
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Díaz Dapena Alberto: REGIOlab - University of Oviedo, Oviedo

No 47, Documentos de Trabajo en Economia y Ciencia Regional from Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile, Department of Economics

Abstract: The large literature about economic convergence explores widely different ways of measure convergence as well as sophisticates and improves the econometrical techniques. Contradictory the number of contributions that analyze how relevant is the data spatial desegregation is reduced. Our hypothesis is that the spatial unit of analysis definition could affect significantly the convergence conclusions. The results show high intra class correlation indexes that indicate that there exists a significant variance inside of the States. A general behavior of convergence is observed coherent with previous studies but we can indentify some States that present internal behaviors of divergence or significant changes in the speed of convergence.

Keywords: Convergence studies; regional and local growth; multilevel analysis and US. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O47 R11 R15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2014-03, Revised 2017-07
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