We calculate measures of economic complexity for US metropolitan areas the period 1998–2015 based on employment data. show that concept translates well to regional setting and local traded industries. Large cities Northeast have highest complexity, while most industries are more complex than ones. In cross-section, is associated with higher incomes, though a lesser extent recently in past. Howe...

В настоящей статье представлен опыт исследования предсоборной дискуссии о митрополичьих округах в начале XX в., об их месте системе церковного управления, роли и значении устроении жизни Церкви. Анализ выявляет пересечение двух основных типов региональной церковной организации: церковных округов, устроенных по региональному принципу, сформированных принципу целеполагания властных полномочий. Вы...

Definition The concept of a metropolitan areas is that of a core area containing a large population nucleus, together with adjacent communities having a high degree of economic and social integration with that core. They include metropolitan statistical areas (MSA’s), consolidated metropolitan statistical areas (CMSA’s), and primary metropolitan statistical areas (PMSA’s). An area that qualifie...

Responses of benthic macroinvertebrates along gradients of urban intensity were investigated in nine metropolitan areas across the United States. Invertebrate assemblages in metropolitan areas where forests or shrublands were being converted to urban land were strongly related to urban intensity. In metropolitan areas where agriculture and grazing lands were being converted to urban land, inver...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to assess relations of laws prohibiting over-the-counter syringe sales (anti-OTC laws) to population prevalence of injection drug users and HIV prevalence or incidence among 96 US metropolitan areas. METHODS A cross-sectional analysis was used. RESULTS Metropolitan areas with anti-OTC laws had a higher mean HIV prevalence (13.8% vs 6.7%) than other metropolitan ...

*We would like to thank three anonymous referees, Emek Basker, Scott Drewianka and Courtney Lafountain for their helpful comments and suggestions and Michael Orlando for programming assistance. Pollak thanks the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for their support. The usual disclaimer applies. ABSTRACT Using census data, Costa and Kahn (QJE, 2000) find that power couples-couples in ...