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 …

between urbanization and trends in aggregate economic structure, such as industrialization; and changes in the internal …

relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for … industrialization opportunities …

likely for other economies that experienced historical industrialization and urbanization …

Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the … power source by manufacturers during industrialization contributed to urbanization. While the data indicate that steam … contribute substantially to urbanization …

We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that … only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to … transforming their sectoral structure. Most industrialization within counties occurred through the emergence of new "factory …

urbanization and structural transformation. Using household microdata from India and exogenous variation in migration opportunities …, market adaptation mitigates over three-fourths of the direct agricultural losses from urbanization. Spatial reorganization …

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