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Will improvements in information technology eliminate face-to- face interactions and make cities obsolete? In this paper, we present a model where individuals make contacts and choose whether to use electronic or face-to-face meetings in their interactions. Cities are modeled as a means of...
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For a variety of reasons described in the paper, improving the performance of urban school districts is more difficult today than it was several decades ago. Yet economic and social changes make performance improvement especially important today. Two quite different bodies of research provide...
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create less greenhouse gas emissions when they live closer to the city center. This study uses three data sets reporting on … negative association between center city living and a household's carbon footprint …
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This paper presents an analysis of the longer-run effects of a college-preparatory program implemented in inner-city …
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neighborhoods closer to the city center. The centralization of price growth during the boom was particularly dramatic in those … metropolitan areas where income is higher away from the city center. We consider four different explanations for why city centers … centralized price growth; (3) areas with centralized poverty had the weakest supply response to the boom in prices in the city …
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This study examines the effects of a congestion tax in central Stockholm on ambient air pollution and the health of local children. We demonstrate that the tax reduced ambient air pollution by 5–15 percent and the rate of acute asthma attacks among young children. We do not see corresponding...
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. This paper focuses on one large employer that has remained in the central city over the twentieth century - the U.S. Postal … Service. We find that blacks substitute towards postal work as other employment opportunities leave the city circa 1960. The …
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city centers since 2000. We show that this recent urban revival is driven almost entirely by younger college graduates in … nightlife accounts for more than 40 percent of their movement toward city centers. Complementary data shows a corresponding rise …
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The United States transformed itself from a rural to an urban society over the last three centuries. After a century of unremarkable growth, the pace of urbanization was historically unprecedented between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the twentieth century, the urban...
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level of city population lasting at least 35 years with no sign of diminishing. Decomposing the effect by industry, I show …-goods producers. Roughly half of the reduction in city-level employment growth was due to the impact on industries other than cotton …
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