the goose that laid the golden eggs. The analysis of urban graft is based on contemporary reports, especially the very …

schooling and citizenship, little attempt has been made to address the possibility that unobservable characteristics of citizens …

The United States transformed itself from a rural to an urban society over the last three centuries. After a century of …. In the twentieth century, the urban population continued to increase but in a much more dispersed manner as the suburban … paper find that the pace and pattern of U.S. urban development are explained by changes in regional comparative advantage …

Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the 1980s? This essay selectively … enormously harm an urban area. These facts suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic will only significantly alter urban fortunes, if it … businesses and the wealthy to leave urban areas. The combination of an increased ability to relocate with increased local …

from experimental and quasi-experimental studies of housing mobility and urban development programs. After this validation …

experienced considerable discontent. Anger about high housing prices and gentrification has led to protests. The urban wage … rapidly, but in those places, the downsides of density are acute. In this essay, I review the causes of urban discontent and … present a unified explanation for this unhappiness. Urban resurgence represents private sector success, and the public sector …

the economic benefits of urban connection, typically finding that agglomeration benefits are at least as high in poor … an economic dead end. A second strand analyzes the negative externalities associated with urban density, and the … effectiveness of urban infrastructure spending. A third line of research addresses the spatial structure of cities directly with …

We develop an urban growth model where human capital spillovers foster entrepreneurship and learning in heterogenous … cities. Incumbent residents limit city expansion through planning regulations so that commuting and housing costs do not …