In this paper, I study long-run population changes across U.S. metropolitan areas. First, I argue that changes over a … long period of time in the geographic distribution of population can be informative about the so-called \resilience" of … regions. Using the censuses of population from1790 to 2010, I find that persistent declines, lasting two decades or more, are …

In this paper, I study long-run population changes across U.S. metropolitan areas. First, I argue that changes over a … long period of time in the geographic distribution of population can be informative about the so-called \resilience" of … regions. Using the censuses of population from1790 to 2010, I find that persistent declines, lasting two decades or more, are …

and population is only part of the story of postwar urban evolution. Another important part of the story is a postwar … that postwar growth in employment (and to a lesser extent population) has favored metropolitan areas with smaller levels of … employment (population) density. These trends are shared by major regions of the country and by manufacturing and non …