The Economics of Maps

Nagaraj, Abhishek; Stern, Scott

doi:10.1257/jep.34.1.196

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“…Our findings contribute important new evidence to the long-standing study of how redistricting shapes both economic and political outcomes (Artés, Richter, and Timmons 2019;Nagaraj and Stern 2020). Existing theories of gerrymandering focus on voters and margins of safety in winning districts (e.g., Coate and Knight 2007;Gul and Pesendorfer 2010;Friedman and Holden 2008;Kolotilin and Wolitzky 2023;Owen and Grofman 1988).…”

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Are Firms Gerrymandered?

ARTÉS,

KAUFMAN,

RICHTER

et al. 2024

Am Polit Sci Rev

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We provide the first evidence that firms, not just voters, are gerrymandered. We compare allocations of firms in enacted redistricting plans to counterfactual distributions constructed using simulation methods. We find that firms are over-allocated to districts held by the mapmakers’ party when partisans control the redistricting process; maps drawn by courts and independent commissions allocate firms more proportionately. Our results hold when we account for the gerrymandering of seats: fixing the number of seats the mapmakers’ party wins, they obtain more firms than expected in their districts. Our research reveals that partisan mapmakers target more than just voters, shedding new light on the link between corporate and political power in the United States and opening new pathways for studying how mapmakers actually draw district boundaries.

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Are Firms Gerrymandered?

ARTÉS,

KAUFMAN,

RICHTER

et al. 2024

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…Georeferencing mapped documents is an important step in the process of making archival and contemporaneous maps discoverable, searchable, and otherwise accessible [ 30 , 35 , 42 , 104 ]. However, the process of georeferencing is—even today—largely manual and inefficient.…”

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Toponym-assisted map georeferencing: Evaluating the use of toponyms for the digitization of map collections

Bahgat

Runfola

2021

PLoS ONE

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A great deal of information is contained within archival maps—ranging from historic political boundaries, to mineral resources, to the locations of cultural landmarks. There are many ongoing efforts to preserve and digitize historic maps so that the information contained within them can be stored and analyzed efficiently. A major barrier to such map digitizing efforts is that the geographic location of each map is typically unknown and must be determined through an often slow and manual process known as georeferencing. To mitigate the time costs associated with the georeferencing process, this paper introduces a fully automated method based on map toponym (place name) labels. It is the first study to demonstrate these methods across a wide range of both simulated and real-world maps. We find that toponym-based georeferencing is sufficiently accurate to be used for data extraction purposes in nearly half of all cases. We make our implementation available to the wider research community through fully open-source replication code, as well as an online georeferencing tool, and highlight areas of improvement for future research. It is hoped that the practical implications of this research will allow for larger and more efficient processing and digitizing of map information for researchers, institutions, and the general public.

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“…Mobile navigation apps allow users to find any geographic point and plan travel, journey, or route based on these features provided (Gupta & Dogra, 2017). Modern navigation apps continue to improve with additional layers of dynamic information, such as real-time traffic and transportation information (Nagaraj & Stern, 2020).…”

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The effect of flow experience on reuse intention of mobile navigation apps: The mediating role of location-based mobile service quality

Ozkan,

Yasin,

Gursen

2024

TMS

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This study aims to determine the effect of consumers' flow experience on their intention to reuse mobile navigation apps and reveal the mediating role of location-based mobile service quality in this effect. Data were collected through an online survey of 513 respondents who were actively using mobile navigation apps and analyzed using structural equation modeling and mediation analysis. The results reveal that flow experience affects the intention to reuse mobile navigation apps and that location-based mobile service quality mediates this effect. When the mediating role of location-based service quality was tested, the direct effect of flow experience on reuse intention became insignificant. Information, reliability, and design quality are the most significant dimensions of location-based service quality. Considering the limited number of studies on mobile navigation services, particularly user behavior, this study contributes substantially to services marketing literature. In addition, this study provides insights for practitioners on how to design service proposals and the realization processes of mobile navigation apps.

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The Economics of Maps

Cited by 23 publications

References 25 publications

Are Firms Gerrymandered?

Are Firms Gerrymandered?

Toponym-assisted map georeferencing: Evaluating the use of toponyms for the digitization of map collections

The effect of flow experience on reuse intention of mobile navigation apps: The mediating role of location-based mobile service quality

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