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New working paper: Unravelling urban advantages - A meta-analysis of agglomeration economies

Together with Stuart Donovan, Henri L.F. de Groot and Carl Koopmans, we have a new working paper out, titled: Unravelling urban …

Stated choice experiments

What is this about? This is a more static and general post and deals with all sorts of materials considering stated choice experiments …

Does new information technology change commuting behavior?

Our paper Does new information technology change commuting behavior written together with Sergejs Gubins and Jos van Ommeren is …

Valuation of Ethnic Diversity: Heterogeneous Effects in an Integrated Labor and Housing Market

Our paper Valuation of Ethnic Diversity: Heterogeneous Effects in an Integrated Labor and Housing Market written together with Jessie …

Barriers of Culture, Networks, and Language

A new pubication is out in REGION with Zhiling Wang and Peter Nijkamp titled Barriers of Culture, Networks, and Language. A direct link …

New Economic Geography model with R

New economic geography model with R Introduction Why some regions have more economic activiy than others depend on a variety of …

Migrating from Jekyll to Hugo

Introduction For quite some time I have been thinking about migrating my (very small) website to the Hugo platform. Mostly because I …

Sortingmod: an R-package for sorting models

Overview sortingmod is a package for estimating the sorting model - a discrete choice model which explains the location decision of …

Choosing statistical software packages for education in the social sciences

Introduction: the empirical workflow Econometrics is much easier without the data—Marno Verbeek The quote above does not only …