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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Measuring Gentrification : Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2018

We demonstrate that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e. nowcasting and forecasting) and by providing additional context about how the local economy is changing. Combining...

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Gentrification and the Amenity Value of Crime Reductions : Evidence from Rent Deregulation

Autor, David H. - 2017

Gentrification involves large-scale neighborhood change whereby new residents and improved amenities increase property values. In this paper, we study whether and how much public safety improvements are capitalized by the housing market after an exogenous shock to the gentrification process. We...

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Gentrification and the Rising Returns to Skill

Edlund, Lena - 2015

In 1980, housing prices in large US cities rose with distance from the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that the inversion can be traced to more hours worked by the skilled. Scarce non-market time downgrades the importance of residential space and upgrades that of...

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