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Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013
monocentric city model, rising incomes and falling commuting costs, can explain much of this pattern, while urban crime and racial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082149
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The Dawn of an ‘Age of Deposits’ in the United States
Jaremski, Matthew - 2015
. Checking accounts, clearinghouses, rising incomes, and urbanization contributed to the increasing preference for deposits, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016655
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Industrialization and Urbanization : Did the Steam Engine Contribute to the Growth of Cities in the United States?
Kim, Sukkoo - 2021
Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the … power source by manufacturers during industrialization contributed to urbanization. While the data indicate that steam … contribute substantially to urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247211
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Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920 : Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography
Kim, Sukkoo - 2014
Industrial revolution is fundamentally linked with the rise of factories and the decline of skilled artisans in manufacturing. Most scholars agree that factories as compared to artisan shops were intensive in unskilled labor. Indeed, the hallmark of the early factories is the utilization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751990
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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016
Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998418
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Is There a New Urbanism? The Growth of U.S. Cities in the 1990s
Glaeser, Edward L.; Shapiro, Jesse M. - 2021
The 1990s were an unusually good decade for the largest American cities and, in particular, for the cities of the Midwest. However, fundamentally urban growth in the 1990s looked extremely similar to urban growth during the prior post-war decades. The growth of cities was determined by three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230176
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Escape from the City? The Role of Race, Income, and Local Public Goods in Post-War Suburbanization
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2010
Affluent towns often deliver high-quality public services to their residents. I estimate the willingness to pay to live in a high-income suburb, above and beyond the demand of wealthy neighbors, by measuring changes in housing prices across city-suburban borders as the income disparity between...
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Accidental Environmentalists? Californian Demand for Teslas and Solar Panels
Kaiser, William - 2014
In the absence of a national carbon tax, household driving and electricity consumption impose social costs. Suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than center city residents. If more suburbanites purchase electric vehicles (EV) and install solar panels, then their greenhouse gas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039856
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When Work Moves : Job Suburbanization and Black Employment
Miller, Conrad - 2018
This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … stable segregation suggests job suburbanization may have increased black-white labor market inequality. Exploiting variation … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916595
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Spatial Mismatch or Racial Mismatch?
Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2007
We contrast the spatial mismatch hypothesis with what we term the racial mismatch hypothesis - that the problem is not a lack of jobs, per se, where blacks live, but a lack of jobs where blacks live into which blacks are hired. We first report new evidence on the spatial mismatch hypothesis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776804