Per-capita income gaps across US states and Canadian provinces

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1173-1187

  Basher, Syed A ^a   Lagerlöf, Nils Petter ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Geography; Per capita income gaps; Population density; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449111789     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2007.07.010     Document Type: Article

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