China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses … suggests that current regional economic development policies that bolster the growth of China's northeastern cities are likely … China's cities …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …

when urbanization is low and consequent pressure on the land keeps rural incomes low, making agents willing to incur high … risks of "underemployment" in the urban informal sector, and eventually falls after urbanization and consequently rural …

, the urban-rural income inequality. This pattern in the data suggests that inferences based solely on China's national …