Martijn Burger

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw on the Gallup World Poll to examine urban-rural happiness differentials across the world and identify the degree to which certain groups are more likely to return higher levels of happiness in cities.

TL;DR: This article conducted a meta-analysis of the empirical literature on the net employment effects of renewable energy and found that the reported conclusions were to a large extent driven by the methodology that is applied, where computable general equilibrium and I/O methods that include induced effects and studies that consider only the near future in their study period (up to 2020) are generally less optimistic about net job creation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of overseas Chinese communities in the location choice of greenfield investments made by mainland Chinese multinational enterprises across European regions is shown through an empirical analysis of an exhaustive set of investment projects across NUTS-1 regions in twenty-six European countries for the period 2003-2010.

TL;DR: In this article, the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) refers to the sensitivity of statistical research results to the initial spatial nomenclature used Despite a substantial literature in the related field of geography on the potential influence of the MAUP, the urban economic modeling tradition has not paid much attention to this issue.

TL;DR: In this article, home-host ties are not affected by small political conflict, while wars and major institutional transitions devaluate the value of ties, and they find evidence that home host ties do not affect location choice decisions in Sub-Saharan Africa.