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Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average …-quarter has been realized. Estimated welfare gains from relaxing existing height constraints are 5.9% in the developed world and 3 …
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to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis … period, we find that the degree and nature of regional urbanization and specialization are important drivers of the …
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This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in … parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous … suggest that urbanization was detrimental to the electoral success of lawyers but beneficial to that of employees and workers …
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Individuals urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural living conditions. Body mass, height, and … urban females, and urban females may not have been affected as much as males by urbanization. …
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This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...
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The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...
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through accessible data sets. Our predictions include an U-shaped relationship between the well-known measures of urbanization … and urban primacy, a hypothesis that we test empirically using World Bank data. …
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n this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in … barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … migration cost reduction and skill accumulation. While trade liberalization is important for urbanization during the transition …
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The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...
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We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...
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