Hackmann, Angelina; Klarl, Torben - In: Papers in Regional Science 99 (2020) 3, pp. 841-852
Exploiting the hierarchical structure of cities and based on a dataset for U.S. cities between 1840 and 2016, the aim of this paper is to analyze the evolution of the U.S. city size distribution. For that purpose we estimate a general three-parameter Zipf model, which can be traced back to...