Gabaix, Xavier; Rozenfeld, Hernán D.; Rybski, Diego; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
The distribution of the population of cities has attracted a great deal of attention, in part because it sharply constrains models of local growth. However, to this day, there is no consensus on the distribution below the very upper tail, because available data need to rely on the "legal" rather...