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Suburbanization in the United States 1970-2010
Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The second half of the twentieth century saw large-scale suburbanization in the United States, with the median share of … methodology for discriminating between the three leading explanations for this suburbanization (workplace attractiveness …
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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment
Miller, Conrad - 2018
This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … stable segregation suggests job suburbanization may have increased black-white labor market inequality. Exploiting variation … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452992
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Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2007
Affluent towns often deliver high-quality public services to their residents. I estimate the willingness to pay to live in a high-income suburb, above and beyond the demand of wealthy neighbors, by measuring changes in housing prices across city-suburban borders as the income disparity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465339
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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels
Delmas, Magali A. - 2014
In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457912
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Urban Sprawl and Social Capital : Evidence from Indonesian Cities
Civelli, Andrea; Gaduh, Arya; Rothenberg, Alexander D.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We use detailed data from Indonesian cities to study how variation in density within urban areas affects social capital. For identification, we instrument density with soil characteristics, and control for community averages of observed characteristics. Under plausible assumptions, these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210096
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History and Urban Economics
Hanlon, W. Walker - 2020
This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions in urban economics. This area of research has seen rapid growth in the past decade, thanks to new technologies that have made available increasingly rich data stretching far back in time. The focus is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481154
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The Dynamics of City Formation
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2008
This paper examines city formation in a country whose urban population is growing steadily over time, with new cities required to accommodate this growth. In contrast to most of the literature there is immobility of housing and urban infrastructure, and investment in these assets is taken on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464877
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Urban Colossus : Why is New York America's Largest City?
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2005
New York has been remarkably successful relative to any other large city outside of the sunbelt and it remains the nation's premier metropolis. What accounts for New York's rise and continuing success? The rise of New York in the early nineteenth century is the result of technological changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467283
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The Economics of Density : Evidence from the Berlin Wall
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M. - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces and an arbitrary number of heterogeneous city blocks. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to commuting decisions, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458313
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Zoning and the Economic Geography of Cities
Shertzer, Allison - 2016
Comprehensive zoning is ubiquitous in U.S. cities, yet we know surprisingly little about its long-run impacts. We provide the first attempt to measure the causal effect of land use regulation over the long term, using as our setting Chicago's first (1923) comprehensive zoning ordinance. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456022