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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2012
Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112847
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Spatial Development
Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2021
We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth...
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Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy
Busso, Matias - 2010
This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the Longitudinal Business Database. To ground our welfare analysis, we develop a heterogeneous agent general...
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Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013
This handbook chapter seeks to document the economic forces that led the US to become an urban nation over its two hundred year history. We show that the urban wage premium in the US was remarkably stable over the past two centuries, ranging between 15 and 40 percent, while the rent premium was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082149
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065603
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066249
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Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment influences the choices of entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial success influences the local economy. Yet modern urban economics has paid relatively little attention to entrepreneurs. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070489
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A World of Cities : The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013
simple urban model illustrates that in closed economies, agricultural prosperity leads to more urbanization but that in an … open economy, urbanization increases with agricultural desperation. The challenge of developing world mega-cities is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071513
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The Potato'S Contribution to Population and Urbanization : Evidence from an Historical Experiment
Nunn, Nathan - 2009
introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our … urbanization observed during the 18th and 19th centuries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158021
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Urban Productivity in the Developing World
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017
higher in developing-world cities than in rural areas, and historically urbanization is strongly correlated with economic … growth. Education seems to be a strong complement to urbanization, and entrepreneurial human capital correlates strongly with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960162