There is a strong connection between per worker productivity and metropolitan area population, which is commonly …

productivity, perhaps due to easy access to customers or suppliers. The search for the sources of productivity differences that can …

This paper examines the productivity (and wage) gains from locating in dense, urban environments. We distinguish … spurious and is the result of omitted ability measures, (2) the urban wage premium works because cities enhance productivity … premium does not represent omitted ability bias and it is only in part a level effect to productivity. The bulk of the urban …

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker … remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then plummeted after 1970. The productivity boom from … consistent with an extensive series of key facts about the nature of the construction sector. The post-1970 productivity decline …

. The elasticity of housing supply helps determine the extent to which increases in productivity will create bigger cities … not only responsible for higher housing prices, but also affect how cities respond to increases in productivity …

existence of agglomeration economies, which exist when productivity rises with density, but estimating the magnitude of those …

Africa is urbanizing rapidly, and this creates both opportunities and challenges. Labor productivity appears to be much …