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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....
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Connecting to Power : Political Connections, Innovation, and Firm Dynamics
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2018
in Italy. We find that firm-level political connections are widespread, especially among large firms, and that industries …
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Learning Entrepreneurship from Other Entrepreneurs?
Guiso, Luigi - 2016
entrepreneurs, controlling for the density of firms in their current location. Conditional on becoming entrepreneurs, the same … individuals are also more likely to be successful entrepreneurs, as measured by business income or firm productivity. Strikingly … interpretation, we find that entrepreneurs who at the age of 18 lived in areas with a higher firm density tend to adopt better …
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Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States
Collins, William J. - 2011
We study the local effects of a federal program that helped cities clear areas for redevelopment, rehabilitate structures, complete city plans, and enforce building codes. We use an instrumental variable strategy to estimate the program's effects on city-level measures of income, property...
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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing
Zheng, Siqi - 2011
In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...
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Rethinking Detroit
Owens, Raymond E. - 2017
We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city's current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately surrounded by a ring of largely vacant neighborhoods. We propose a model with residential...
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The Potato'S Contribution to Population and Urbanization : Evidence from an Historical Experiment
Nunn, Nathan - 2009
We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...
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Yet Another Tale of Two Cities : Buenos Aires and Chicago
Campante, Filipe R. - 2009
Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and grain from fertile hinterlands to eastern markets. However, despite their initial similarities, Chicago was vastly more prosperous for most of the 20th...
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The Wrong Side(S) of the Tracks Estimating the Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on City Outcomes
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2008
At the metropolitan level there is a striking negative correlation between residential racial segregation and population characteristics -- particularly for black residents -- but it is widely recognized that this correlation may not be causal. This paper provides a novel test of the causal...
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Cycling : An Increasingly Untouched Source of Physical and Mental Health
Kelly, Inas - 2007
Cost savings associated with increased gasoline prices and lower levels of urban sprawl have been cited in terms of personal savings, environmental awareness, reduced costs through lower travel times and congestion, and reduced income inequality. Cost savings in terms of improved health,...
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