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Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...

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Is There a New Urbanism? The Growth of U.S. Cities in the 1990s

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001

The 1990s were an unusually good decade for the largest American cities and, in particular, for the cities of the Midwest. However, fundamentally urban growth in the 1990s looked extremely similar to urban growth during the prior post-war decades. The growth of cities was determined by three...

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What Can Developing Cities Today Learn From the Urban Past?

Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The downsides of density, including traffic congestion, contagious disease and crime, were common in Victorian London …

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

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The Rise of the Skilled City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed effects and tests for reverse causality. We also find that skilled cities are growing because they are...

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Urbanization and its Discontents

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2020

American cities have experienced a remarkable renaissance over the past 40 years, but in recent years, cities have experienced considerable discontent. Anger about high housing prices and gentrification has led to protests. The urban wage premium appears to have disappeared for less skilled...

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The Greenness of China : Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development

Zheng, Siqi - 2009

China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses …

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Urban Productivity in the Developing World

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017

higher in developing-world cities than in rural areas, and historically urbanization is strongly correlated with economic … growth. Education seems to be a strong complement to urbanization, and entrepreneurial human capital correlates strongly with …

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Transforming Cities : Does Urbanization Promote Democratic Change?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016

Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper … reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public …. Urbanization may improve the quality of poor-world governments, but more research is needed to draw that conclusion …

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The Social Consequences of Housing

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2000

The social capital literature documents a connection between social connection and economic outcomes of interest ranging from government quality to economic growth. Popular authors suggest that housing and architecture are important determinants of social connection. This paper examines the...

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