Delineating functional territories from outer space | Latin American Economic Review
The delimitation of functional spatial units or functional territories is an important topic in regional science and economic geography, since the empirical verification of many causal relationships is affected by the size and shape of these areas. This paper, written by Julio A. Berdegué, Tatiana Hiller, Juan Mauricio Ramírez, Santiago Satizábal, Isidro Soloaga, Juan Soto, Miguel Uribe & Olga Vargas , proposes a two-step
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An analysis of economic incentives to encourage organ donation: evidence from Chile | Latin American Economic Review
Marcela Parada-Contzen & Felipe Vásquez-Lavín perform a cost–benefit analysis on the introduction of monetary incentives for living kidney donations by estimating the compensation that would make an individual indifferent between donating and not donating a kidney while alive using Chilean data. We find that monetary incentives of US$12,000 save US$38,000 to health care system per donor and
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