期刊
JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE
卷 63, 期 1, 页码 173-213出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jors.12621
关键词
coagglomeration; location quotient; pointwise mutual information; relatedness; revealed comparative advantage
This article proposes a statistical framework for quantifying the location and colocation associations of economic activities using information-theoretic measures. The framework is related to existing measures and provides measures of uncertainty and statistical significance.
The study of location and colocation of economic activities lies at the heart of economic geography and related disciplines, but the indices used to quantify these patterns are often defined ad hoc and lack a clear statistical foundation. We propose a statistical framework to quantify location and colocation associations of economic activities using information-theoretic measures. We relate the resulting measures to existing measures of revealed comparative advantage, localization, specialization, and coagglomeration and show how different measures derive from the same general framework. To support the use of these measures in hypothesis testing and statistical inference, we develop a Bayesian estimation approach to provide measures of uncertainty and statistical significance of the estimated quantities. We illustrate this framework in an application to an analysis of location and colocation patterns of occupations in US cities.
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