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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311942
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Cities, Skills, and Regional Change
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2011
One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf's or Gibrat's Law. An alternative view is that urban change reflects individual responses to changing tastes or technologies. This paper examines almost 200 years of regional change in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127422
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142084
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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
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Transforming Cities : Does Urbanization Promote Democratic Change?
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016
Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper … reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public …. Urbanization may improve the quality of poor-world governments, but more research is needed to draw that conclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978525
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Cities in the Developing World
Bryan, Gharad - 2019
The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860843
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Sprawl and Urban Growth
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2021
Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248531
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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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The Greenness of China : Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development
Zheng, Siqi - 2013
China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095236