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What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns

Ellison, Glenn - 2007

Many industries are geographically concentrated. Many mechanisms that could account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use...

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The Role of Industry, Occupation, and Location-Specific Knowledge in the Survival of New Firms

Figueroa, C. Jara - 2018

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of … workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry, occupation …, and location specific knowledge carried by workers from one establishment to the next using a dataset summarizing the …

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The Economic Approach to Social Capital

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2000

decision of individuals. Individual social capital should then be aggregated to measure the social capital of a community. This …

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Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2000

More than 17 percent of households in American central cities live in poverty; in American suburbs, just 7.4 percent of households live in poverty. The income elasticity of demand for land is too low for urban poverty to be the result of wealthy individuals' wanting to live where land is cheap...

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What is Social Capital? The Determinants of Trust and Trustworthiness

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1999

Using a sample of Harvard undergraduates, we analyze trust and social capital in two experiments. Trusting behavior and trustworthiness rise with social connection; differences in race and nationality reduce the level of trustworthiness. Certain individuals appear to be persistently more...

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Economic Analysis and Infrastructure Investment

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2020

This paper summarizes economic research on investment in public infrastructure and introduces the findings of several new studies on this topic. It begins with a review of several potential justifications for the public sector's involvement in building, financing, and operating infrastructure,...

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Infrastructure and Urban Form

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2020

Cities are shaped by transportation infrastructure. Older cities were anchored by waterways. Nineteenth century cities followed the path of streetcars and subways. The 20th century city rebuilt itself around the car. The close connection between transportation and urban form is natural, since...

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Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2009

Research on entrepreneurship often examines the local dimensions of new business formation. The local environment influences the choices of entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial success influences the local economy. Yet modern urban economics has paid relatively little attention to entrepreneurs. This...

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Arbitrage in Housing Markets

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007

Urban economists understand housing prices with a spatial equilibrium approach that assumes people must be indifferent across locations. Since the spatial no arbitrage condition is inherently imprecise, other economists have turned to different no arbitrage conditions, such as the prediction...

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The Economics Approach to Cities

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007

and high prices. Since the economic theory of cities emphasizes a search for exogenous causes of endogenous outcomes like …

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