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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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Cities in the Developing World
Bryan, Gharad - 2019
The fast and often chaotic urbanization of the developing world generates both economic opportunity and challenges …, we review the expanding body of economic research on developing world cities. One strand of this literature emphasizes … systems in the far more fluid cities of the developing world.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860843
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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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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
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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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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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The Effects of Urban Concentration on Economic Growth
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2021
The paper examines whether there is a significant relationship between economic growth and the degree of urban concentration, as measured by primacy, or the share of the largest metro area in national urban population. Is there reason to believe many countries have excessive primacy and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220924
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Measuring Property Rights Institutions
Djankov, Simeon; Glaeser, Edward L.; Perotti, Valeria; … - 2022
, and more broadly with the Demsetz’s (1967) approach to property rights institutions. Indeed, we document world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013404197
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The Consequences of Radical Reform : The French Revolution
Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Johnson, Simon; … - 2022
were occupied by the French and that underwent radical institutional reform experienced more rapid urbanization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014209326
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Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - 2023
the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358039