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T1 Urban income and city size : Ecological Inference with Entropy Econometrics for the Spanish municipalities
T2 Renta municipal y tamaño urbano : inferencia ecológica con máxima entropía para los municipios españoles
A1 Fernández Vázquez, Esteban
A1 Rubiera Morollón, Fernando
A1 Aponte Jaramillo, Elizabeth
K1 Relaciones entre tamaño urbano y renta
K1 Máxima entropía
K1 Inferencia ecológica
K1 España
K1 Urban size and income relationship
K1 Entropy econometrics
K1 Ecological inference
K1 Spain
K1 C15, C21, R11 and R12
K1 Economía
K1 Economics
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB Most of the regional empirical analyses are limited by the lack of data. Researches have touse information which is structured in administrative or political regions not alwayseconomically meaningful. Any aggregation of a territory in regions with economic senserequires data of the main economic variables at basic spatial units, like GDP at a locallevel. In this paper a methodology to approximate local GDP values is proposed usingentropy econometrics which can be defined as an exercise of ecological inference. Inaddition to the analysis of the main characteristics of the techniques proposed, the paperillustrates how the procedure works taking as empirical application the estimation ofincome for the Spanish municipalities according to their size. As an example of thepossibilities open by this methodology a regional classification based on the relevance ofthe cities size, which allows us to measure the relevance of agglomeration economics, isempirically applied to the Spanish case obtaining some interesting first results.
PB Universidad de Alcalá. Instituto Universitario de Análisis Económico y Social
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/6542
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/6542
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 19-abr-2024