China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization …, but not to the change of night-time light. These results suggest that an inaccurate account of urbanization is an …

-time measurement of the labor market. The sources are the Current Employment Statistics (CES) from BLS and microdata from the payroll …-sized samples. We argue that combining CES and ADP data series reduces the measurement error inherent in both data sources. In …

. Our central finding is that the US dollar scores (by a wide margin) as the world's dominant anchor currency and, by some …

previous classification efforts is that we employ an extensive data base on market-determined parallel exchange rates. Our … 'natural' classification algorithm leads to a stark reassessment of the post-war history of exchange rate arrangements. When … the official categorization is a form of peg, roughly half the time our classification reveals the true underlying …

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 …

Could urbanization lead to more democracy and better government for the mega-cities of the developing world? This paper …. Urbanization may improve the quality of poor-world governments, but more research is needed to draw that conclusion … reviews three channels through which urbanization may generate political change. First, cities facilitate coordinated public …