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Glaeser, Edward L.; Kallal, Hedi; Scheinkman, José; … - 2021

Recent theories of economic growth, including Romer (1986), Porter (1989) and Jacobs (1969), have stressed the role of technological spillovers in generating growth. Because such knowledge spillovers are particularly effective in cities, where communication between people is more extensive, data...

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Urban Growth

Black, Duncan; Henderson, J. Vernon - 2021

This paper models and examines empirically the evolution of cities in an economy. Twentieth century evolution in the USA is characterized by parallel growth of cities of different types and on-going entry of new cities, together maintaining a stable relative size distribution of cities. Each...

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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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A World of Cities : The Causes and Consequences of Urbanization in Poorer Countries

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2013

simple urban model illustrates that in closed economies, agricultural prosperity leads to more urbanization but that in an … open economy, urbanization increases with agricultural desperation. The challenge of developing world mega-cities is that …

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...

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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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What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2016

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare …

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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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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …

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The Dynamics of City Formation

Henderson, J. Vernon - 2010

This paper examines city formation in a country whose urban population is growing steadily over time, with new cities required to accommodate this growth. In contrast to most of the literature there is immobility of housing and urban infrastructure, and investment in these assets is taken on the...

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