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Henderson, J. Vernon - 2008

This paper examines city formation in a country whose urban population is growing steadily over time, with new cities required to accommodate this growth. In contrast to most of the literature there is immobility of housing and urban infrastructure, and investment in these assets is taken on the...

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Determinants of City Growth in Brazil

da Mata, Daniel - 2005

In this paper, we examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. We consider a model of a city, which combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures. For the empirical analysis, we constructed a dataset of 123 Brazilian...

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Does Investment in National Highways Help or Hurt Hinterland City Growth?

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2018

We investigate the effects of the recently constructed Chinese national highway system on local economic outcomes. On average, roads that improve access to local markets have small or negative effects on prefecture economic activity and population. However, these averages mask a distinct pattern...

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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2009

GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...

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The Effects of Urban Concentration on Economic Growth

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2000

The paper examines whether there is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy, or the share of the largest metro area in national urban population. Is there reason to believe many countries have excessive primacy and how...

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Urbanization in the Developing World : Too Early or Too Slow?

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2020

We describe patterns of urbanization in the developing world and the extent to which they differ from the developed … world. We consider the extent to which urbanization in the developing world can be explained by conventional models of … structural transformation has suggested that urbanization in the developing is occurring `too early', while another strand argues …

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Exclusionary Policies in Urban Development, How under-servicing of migrant households affects the growth and composition of Brazilian cities

Feler, Leo - 2008

Localities in developed countries often restrict construction and population growth through regulations governing land usage, lot sizes, building heights, and frontage requirements. In developing countries, such policies are less effective because of the existence of unregulated, informal...

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