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Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas

Albouy, David - 2008

The standard revealed-preference estimate of a city's quality of life is proportional to that city's cost-of-living relative to its wage-level. Adjusting estimates to account for federal taxes, non-housing costs, and non-labor income produces more plausible quality-of-life estimates than in the...

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Cities and COVID-19 infections : population density, transmission speeds and sheltering responses

Gerritse, Michiel - In: Covid economics : vetted and real-time papers (2020) 37, pp. 1-26

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Population dynamics and spatial dependence: evidence from Brazilian Cities

Silva, Diego Firmino Costa da; Silveira Neto, Raul da Mota - In: The review of regional studies : a joint publ. of the … 49 (2019) 3, pp. 454-473

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City size and the risk of being unemployed : job pooling vs. job competition

Gaigné, Carl; Sanch-Maritan, Mathieu - In: Regional science & urban economics 77 (2019), pp. 222-238

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Does it pay to live in big(ger) cities? : the role of agglomeration benefits, local amenities, and costs of living

Ahrend, Rudiger; Lembcke, Alexander C. - 2016

estimates how city size affects worker productivity (agglomeration benefits) in Germany, based on individual-level wage data … elasticity for agglomeration benefits is around 0.02, implying that comparable workers in Hamburg (3 million residents) are about … 6% more productive than in Recklinghausen (150 000). But agglomeration benefits are, on average, offset by higher prices …

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