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Size distributions for all cities : which one is best?

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Heavy tailed but not Zipf : firm and establishment size in the United States

Kondo, Illenin O.; Lewis, Logan T.; Stella, Andrea - In: Journal of applied econometrics 38 (2023) 5, pp. 767-785

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Lognormal city size distribution and distance

González-Val, Rafael - In: Economics letters 181 (2019), pp. 7-10

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Normal but skewed?

Amengual, Dante; Bei, Xinyue; Sentana, Enrique - In: Journal of applied econometrics 37 (2022) 7, pp. 1295-1313

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Chapter 53. The Evolution of City Size Distributions

Gabaix, Xavier; Ioannides, Yannis M. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2341-2378). 2004

We review the accumulated knowledge on city size distributions and determinants of urban growth. This topic is of interest because of a number of key stylized facts, including notably Zipf's law for cities (which states that the number of cities of size greater than S is proportional to 1/ S )...

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