In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had … tolerance for commuting. In a tract-level data set covering the 27 largest US cities, years 1980-2010, we employ a city … city center and their increased presence can account for the observed price changes, notably the rising price premium …

The city beautiful movement, which in the early 20th Century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the … within an MSA was positively associated with higher subsequent city attractiveness. In contrast to the generally declining … trends in the American central city, neighborhoods that were close to "central recreational districts" have experienced …

Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in local coal availability affect equilibrium city employment. Drawing … on the model, the paper surveys papers that examine the net effects of coal on the growth in city population and air …

In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city …, which describes the strength of intra-city industry reallocations that has occurred over time. We find that human capital is … urban growth. -- Industry turnover ; urban growth ; structural change ; churning ; city size distribution ; Zipf's law …

positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and …

workers are also discussed. A bunkerized equilibrium in which skilled workers in the old economy no longer reside in the city … may gain by favoring it with a "diversity" subsidy for unskilled workers to reside in the city. …