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The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …
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Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …
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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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New, "big" data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for the study of cities when it...
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urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …
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