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

the health of the population requires integrating these different trends. We compare the risk factor profile of the …

improvements in self-reported health. The association between area education and health increased greatly between 1990 and 2010 … less educated areas. Differences in health-related amenities, ranging from hospital quality to pollution, explain no more … than 17% of the area human capital spillovers on health. Over half of the correlation between area human capital and health …

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

. 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 …

even for risk neutral multinationals, as their profit function is non-linear due to price and productivity effects. For … of productivity shocks in an emerging market producing the intermediate inputs reduces the multinationals' expected … in each country to productivity shocks, channeling the average employment from the more to the less volatile location …