The United States as a Coastal Nation

US economic activity is overwhelmingly concentrated at its ocean and Great Lakes coasts, reflecting a large contribution from coastal proximity to productivity and quality of life. Extensively controlling for correlated natural attributes and initial conditions decisively rejects that the coastal co...

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Volume:	8
Main Author:	Jordan Rappaport Jeffrey D. Sachs
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	Boston Kluwer Academic Publishers 01.03.2003 KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
published in:	Journal of economic growth (Boston, Mass.) Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 5 - 46
Data of publication:	20030301
ISSN:	1381-4338 1573-7020
EISSN:	1573-7020
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Productivity Weather Regression coefficients Coasts Oceans Censuses Lakes Harbors Population density Quality of life Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics population density productivity International Economics quality of life Economic Growth Economics / Management Science Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences MIGRATION POPULATION population density productivity economic growth MARKETS GROWTH CITIES URBAN AREAS QUALITY-OF-LIFE quality of life
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Knowledge Web of Science Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2003 Database information Databases - DBIS