Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young … positive effects of urbanization depend on the skilled and unskilled working together, a form of integration that is more …

This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we … herald cities with their industrial bases as “engines of growth,” does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also …

This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we … herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While … industrialization correlate only weakly with changes in urbanization. This suggests that policy and institutional factors may also …

systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … religious principles of Islam affecting its economic trajectory in the preindustrial world …

This research examines the economic origins and spread of Islam in the Old World and uncovers two empirical …

systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … religious principles of Islam affecting its economic trajectory in the preindustrial world. …

systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … religious principles of Islam affecting its economic trajectory in the pre-industrial world …

systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … religious principles of Islam affecting its economic trajectory in the preindustrial world …