On the distribution of city sizes

Córdoba, Juan-Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2007.01.005

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“…This implies that the German city size distribution was permanently affected by the WWII-shock. 8 Our findings indicate that the transition from the pre-to the postwar distribution has been completed until 1975, the starting point of our data set. That is, if Gibrat's law did not hold in Germany in the first decades after the war during the transition towards a new distribution, it seems to hold again in the more recent period.…”

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Zipf's law for cities in the regions and the country

Giesen¹,

Südekum²

2010

Journal of Economic Geography

126

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Section: Figures 2 3 Herementioning

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Zipf's law for cities in the regions and the country

Giesen¹,

Südekum²

2010

Journal of Economic Geography

126

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“…To fill this gap, Duranton (2007), Rossi-Hansberg and Wright (2007) and Córdoba (2008) propose models that generate growth processes consistent with specific features of the observed invariant distributions of city sizes. In all three contributions, growth leads to agglomeration.…”

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Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Breinlich

Ottaviano

Temple

2014

Handbook of Economic Growth

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Since the early 1990s, there has been a renaissance in the study of regional growth, spurred by new models, methods and data. We survey a range of modelling traditions, and some formal approaches to the 'hard problem' of regional economics, namely the joint consideration of agglomeration and growth. We also review empirical methods and findings based on natural experiments, spatial discontinuity designs, and structural models. Throughout, we give considerable attention to regional growth in developing countries. Finally, we highlight the potential importance of processes that are specific to regional decline, and which deserve greater research attention.

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“…Gabaix (1999), Eeckhout (2004), andCórdoba (2008) have used this regularity to explain the size distribution of cities. Our long-run population persistence fact has already shown that Gibrat's law also seems to hold in our sample over su¢ ciently long time periods.…”

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Cities, Skills and Regional Change

Glaeser

Ponzetto²,

Tobio³

2012

Regional Studies

155

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One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain immutable relationships, such as Zipf's or Gibrat's Law. An alternative view is that urban change re ‡ects individual responses to changing tastes or technologies. This paper examines almost 200 years of regional change in the U.S. and …nds that few, if any, growth relationships remain constant, including Gibrat's Law. Education does a reasonable job of explaining urban resilience in recent decades, but does not seem to predict county growth a century ago. After reviewing this evidence, we present and estimate a simple model of regional change, where education increases the level of entrepreneurship.Human capital spillovers occur at the city level because skilled workers produce more product varieties and thereby increase labor demand. We …nd that skills are associated with growth in productivity or entrepreneurship, not with growth in quality of life, at least outside of the West. We also …nd that skills seem to have depressed housing supply growth in the West, but not in other regions, which supports the view that educated residents in that region have fought for tougher land-use controls. We also present evidence that skills have had a disproportionately large impact on unemployment during the current recession.Comments are appreciated and can be sent to eglaeser@harvard.edu, gponzetto@crei.cat, and kristina_tobio@ksg.harvard.edu.

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On the distribution of city sizes

Cited by 138 publications

References 17 publications

Zipf's law for cities in the regions and the country

Zipf's law for cities in the regions and the country

Regional Growth and Regional Decline

Cities, Skills and Regional Change

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