Gibrat's Law and the Growth of Cities in Brazil: A Panel Data Investigation

Resende, Marcelo

doi:10.1080/0042098042000226993

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“…During the 1980s, there was slight mean reversion, but during the 1990s and 2000s, Gibrat's Law seems to describe the data well. These results also echo Resende (2004). Note: All figures reported correspond to area-level regressions of the log change in urban population on the log of initial urban populations in the specified period.…”

Section: Gibrat's Law Across Four Countriessupporting

confidence: 58%

What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

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Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing world? We compare American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data, however, repeatedly rejects tests inspired by the spatial equilibrium assumption. One hypothesis is that the spatial equilibrium only emerges with economic development, as markets replace social relationships and as human capital spreads more widely. In all four countries there is strong evidence of agglomeration economies and human capital externalities. The correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the gap between urban and rural wages is huge, but the correlation between city size and earnings is modest. The cross-sectional relationship between area-level skills and both earnings and area-level growth are also stronger in the developing world than in the U.S. The forces that drive urban success seem similar in the rich and poor world, even if limited migration and difficult housing markets make it harder for a spatial equilibrium to develop.

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Section: Gibrat's Law Across Four Countriessupporting

confidence: 58%

What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States

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“…Currently, the features of city-size change in developing countries and developed countries vary substantially (Cohen, 2004), for instance, migration restrictions in India and Brazil (Resende, 2004), the Desakota phenomena in Asian countries (Sui & Zeng, 2001), abandonment of rural settlement and urban sprawl in suburban and exurban areas in European and American cities (Antrop, 2004;Kasanko et al, 2006;Kuang, Chi, Lu, & Dou, 2014). In addition, the urban area extracted from the DMSP/OLS data can also measure the city size change after wars and natural disasters (Gillespie et al, 2014;Li & Li, 2014), which may have huge impacts on city-size distribution (Bosker et al, 2008;Davis & Weinstein, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Similar crosscountry comparisons were carried out by Rosen and Resnick (1980), Nitsch (2005), and Soo (2005). Comparisons of city-size distribution at the national level over time have also been widely implemented in developed countries such as the United States (Black & Henderson, 2003), France (Eaton & Eckstein, 1997;Guerin-Pace, 1995), Japan (Eaton & Eckstein, 1997), Germany (Bosker et al, 2008), Denmark (Knudsen, 2001), Netherlands (Brakman et al, 1999), Greece (Petrakos et al, 2000), and Israel (Krakover, 1998), as well as in developing countries, including Brazil (Resende, 2004), Malaysia (Soo, 2007), and China (Anderson & Ge, 2005;Fan, 1999;Song & Honglin Zhang, 2002;Xu & Zhu, 2009;Ye & Xie, 2012).…”

Section: City-size Distribution Based On the Pareto Distributionmentioning

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Detecting the 20 year city-size dynamics in China with a rank clock approach and DMSP/OLS nighttime data

Huang

Gao

et al. 2015

Landscape and Urban Planning

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“…Clark and Stabler, 1991;Gue rin-Pace, 1995;Resende, 2004b). In principle, distinct costs for providing public services provision may be related to distinct returns to scale with respect to city size (see, e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%