Ioannides, Yannis; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
We test implications of economic geography models for location, size and growth of cities with US Census data for 1900 … growth rates, conditional on various measures of market potential and on features sizes of neighbors. We show that while … results suggest that there is a spatial element to the city wage distribution. Our parametric estimations for growth rates …