Boustan, Leah Platt; Bunten, Devin; Hearey, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This handbook chapter seeks to document the economic forces that led the US to become an urban nation over its two hundred year history. We show that the urban wage premium in the US was remarkably stable over the past two centuries, ranging between 15 and 40 percent, while the rent premium was...