A dynamic analysis of interregional specialization pattern and education gap in a model of economic geography

• Project/Area Number: 25380324
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: Kondo Hiroki 上智大学, 経済学部, 教授 (30324221)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
• Keywords: 都市経済学 / 新しい経済地理モデル / 家族の経済学 / 人口移動 / 産業集積 / 人的資本

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I analyze how the economic decisions within a family such as the choice of their residential region and the education for the child by the parent, and the residential region's position in interregional industrial specialization interact with one another and evolve. There are multiple interregional specialization pattern in equilibrium: mono-polar concentration of economic activities and a sharp interregional education gap; multi-polar concentration and a moderate interregional education gap; and the intermediate cases. I show that the expectation formation and the policy have brought about the extremely mono-polar concentration in Japan.
Next we consider the deniable interregional specialization and urbanization pattern. It is desirable that high-technology industries concentrate to some extent. On the other hand it is also desirable that more people invest in education and contribute to the industry. Hence the concentration is too much in the case of mono-polar.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Family Decision of Investment in Human Capital and Migration in a Model of Spatial Agglomeration (2016)
  • Author(s): KONDO Hiroki
  • Journal Title: University of California, Irvine, Discussion Paper Series Volume: 2016-17
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Governmental Provision of Public Goods Need Not Crowd Out Private Provision (2016)
  • Author(s): KONDO Hiroki and GLAZER Amihai
  • Journal Title: University of California, Irvine, Discussion Paper Series Volume: 2016-17
  • Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Governmental transfers and altruistic private transfers (2014)
  • Author(s): Glazer, Amihai and Kondo, Hiroki
  • Journal Title: Journal of Population Economics Volume: 未定 Issue: 2 Pages: 509-533
  • DOI: 10.1007/s00148-014-0503-2
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Presentation] Governmental Provision of Public Goods Need Not Crowd Out Private Provision (2016)
  • Author(s): Kondo, Hiroki and Glazer Amihai
  • Organizer: Irvine and Japan Public Economics Conference
  • Place of Presentation: University of California Irvine アメリカ合衆国カリフォルニア州アーバイン市
  • Year and Date: 2016-02-05
  • Int'l Joint Research