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Technological adaptation, cities and new work

Lin, Jeffrey - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2009

Where does adaptation to innovation take place? The author presents evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the application of new knowledge to production. All else equal, workers are more likely to be observed in new work in locations that are initially dense in both college...

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The rise of the skilled city

Glaeser, Edward L.; Saiz, Albert - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2003

For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed effects, and tests for reverse causality. The authors also find that skilled cities are growing...

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Do suburbs need cities?

Voith, Richard - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1994

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The agglomeration of R&D labs

Carlino, Gerald A.; Carr, Jake; Hunt, Robert M.; Smith, … - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2010

This paper has been superseded by WP 15-03.<p>The authors document the spatial concentration of more than 1,000 research and development (R&D) labs located in the Northeast corridor of the U.S. using point pattern methods. These methods allow systematic examination of clustering at different...</p>

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Agglomeration economies and technical change in urban manufacturing

Calem, Paul S.; Carlino, Gerald A. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1988

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City Beautiful

Carlino, Gerald A.; Saiz, Albert - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2008

theorists and policymakers are coming to see the provision of consumer leisure amenities as a way to attract population … of leisure amenities for urban development. In this paper we propose and validate the number of leisure trips to … metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) as a measure of consumers' revealed preferences for local leisure-oriented amenities …

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Compensating differentials and the social benefits of the NFL

Carlino, Gerald; Coulson, N. Edward - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2002

The authors use hedonic rent and wage equations to measure the compensating differentials that obtain in central cities with franchises of the National Football League. They use repeated observations of cities over time and thereby obtain identification of the NFL effect through franchise...

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Does the U.S. tax treatment of housing promote suburbanization and central city decline?

Gyourko, Joseph; Voith, Richard - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1997

This paper examines the role of U.S. housing-related tax expenditures in creating incentives for decentralization and encouraging residential sorting by income and central city decline. Tax expenditures associated with the deductibility of mortgage interest and property taxes make housing less...

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Employment deconcentration: a new perspective on America's postwar urban evolution.

Carlino, Gerald; Chatterjee, Satyajit - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2001

In this study the authors show that during the postwar era, the United States experienced a decline in the share of urban employment accounted for by the relatively dense metropolitan areas and a corresponding rise in the share of relatively less dense ones. This trend, which the authors call...

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Congestion, agglomeration, and the structure of cities

Brinkman, Jeffrey C. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2013

Congestion pricing has long been held up by economists as a panacea for the problems associated with ever increasing traffic congestion in urban areas. In addition, the concept has gained traction as a viable solution among planners, policymakers, and the general public. While congestion costs...

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