This research evaluates the impact of the introduction of clover and potatoes on urbanization using a panel of Danish … market towns from 1672 to 1901. We find evidence that both clover and potatoes contributed to urbanization using a difference …-in-difference type estimation strategy which exploits that the breakthrough of clover and potatoes should have differential local effects …

This chapter on urbanization and growth focuses on modeling and empirical evidence that pertain to a number of inter … level of individual cities. In the early stages of growth, economic development is characterized by urbanization – a spatial … aspects of the transformation? In any static, growth, or development–urbanization context, how do governance, institutions …

specifications and by introducing different measures of agglomeration at country level (specifically, urbanization and urban …

cross-section OLS and dynamic panel GMM estimation. Agglomeration is measured alternatively through measures of urbanization …

The level of urbanization has increased by over 5 percentage points per decade outside the developed world since 1960 …. Rapid urbanization was accompanied by fast economic growth and job creation in most parts of the world. However, notably … even reversed, the rate of urbanization continued its fast pace. This paper aims to explain this by introducing an …

Transylvania and Hungary, I have pursued to dignify and quantify different aspects of the urbanization degree in the Arad County … urbanization was evident along the eighteenth century both in terms of population growth and a great social mobility and also in … eighteenth century were the basement of the future process of urbanization of Arad County in the century that has followed. …

controlling for other factors, suggesting that there may be an "urbanization effect" that is dampening credit access and usage …

urbanization are unsustainably high. Deep existing deficits in basic urban services such as housing, transit, water, sanitation and …