Alberto Díaz-Dapena, PhD

Education

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• PhD in Economics - University of Oviedo (2013-2017)

      The spatial scale and the empirics of regional economics: growth, convergence and agglomerations

      PHD advisors: Fernando Rubiera Morollón and Esteban Fernández Vázquez

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• Master's Degree in Economics: Economic Analysis Instruments (2012)

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• Degree in economics (2007-2011)

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Publications

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• Díaz-Dapena, A., Pérez-Villadóniga, M.J., (2024) The role of labor discrimination in spatial sorting : The USA as an example of ethnic groups staying apart. The Annals of Regional Science.

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• Díaz-Dapena, A., Scott, D., & Dusan, L. (2023). Identifying the size and geographic scope of short ‑ term rural cost ‑ of ‑ living increases in the United States. The Annals of Regional Science.

 

• Diaz-Dapena, A. Moura, T.G.Z., Rubiera-Morollón, F., (2022) From the local economy to the global market Municipal-level spatial economic modelling of international trade for Brazil, International Regional Science Review.
   

• Cartone, A., Díaz-Dapena, A., Langarita, R., Rubiera-Morollón, F., (2021) Where the city lights shine? Measuring the effect of sprawl on electricity consumption in Spain. Land Use Policy, 105(April), 1–11.

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• Díaz-Dapena, A., Fernández Vázquez, E., Rubiera Morollón, F., Viñuela, A., (2021) Mapping poverty at the local level in Europe: A consistent spatial disaggregation of the AROPE indicator for France, Spain, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Regional Science Policy and Practice, 13(1), 63–81

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• Fernandez-Vazquez, E., Diaz-Dapena, A., Rubiera-Morollon, F., Viñuela, A., (2020) Spatial Disaggregation of Social Indicators: An Info-Metrics Approach. Social Indicators Research, 152(2), 809–821.

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• Díaz-Dapena, A., Fernández-Vázquez, E., Garduño-Rivera, R., Rubiera-Morollon, F., (2019) Economic integration and regional convergence: effects of NAFTA on local convergence in Mexico, 1980–2008. Applied Economics, 51(50), 5515–5527.

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• Díaz Dapena, A., Rubiera-Morollon, F., Paredes, D., (2019) New Approach to Economic Convergence in the EU: A Multilevel Analysis from the Spatial Effects Perspective. International Regional Science Review, 42(3–4), 335–367.

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• Díaz-Dapena, A., Fernández-Vázquez, E., Rubiera-Morollón, F., (2017) Labor Density and Wages in Spain: Evidence from Geographically Disaggregated Data. Growth and Change, 49(1), 55–70.

 

• Díaz-Dapena, A., Rubiera-Morollón, F., Pires, M., Gomes, A., (2017) Convergence in Brazil: new evidence using a multilevel approach. Applied Economics, 49(50), 5050–5062.

 

• Díaz-Dapena, A., Rubiera-Morollón, F., Paredes-Araya, D., (2017) Are there different local patterns of convergence concealed beneath the regional level? An analysis for US states and counties using a multilevel approach. The Annals of Regional Science, 58(3), 623–640.

 

• Díaz-Dapena, A., Fernández-Vázquez, E., Garduño-Rivera, G., Rubiera-Morollón, F., (2017) Does trade imply convergence? Analyzing the effect of NAFTA on the local convergence in Mexico. Trimestre Económico, 84(333), 103–120.

 

• Díaz-Dapena, A., Fernández-Vázquez, E., Rubiera-Morollón, F., (2016) The role of spatial scale in regional convergence: the effect of MAUP in the estimation of beta-convergence equations. The Annals of Regional Science, 56(2), 473–489.

 

• Rubiera-Morollón, F., del Rosal-Fernández, I., Díaz-Dapena, A., (2014) Can large cities explain the aggregate movements of economies? Testing the “granular hypothesis” for US counties. Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 8(2), 109–118.

 

Software

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• Díaz-Dapena, A., Franco Anaya, S.M., Fernández-Vázquez, E. (2024) EIEntropy: Ecological Inference Applying Entropy. R package

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Awards

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• PhD Award of the University of Oviedo (2020)

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• Young Researcher Award of the Spanish Regional Science Association (2012)

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Research stays

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• University of Pescara - Italy (2022 and 2023)

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• Michigan State University - United States (2015)

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• University of Illinois - United States (2014)

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