Giesen, Kristian; Zimmermann, Arndt; Suedekum, Jens - In: Journal of Urban Economics 68 (2010) 2, pp. 129-137
Using un-truncated settlement size data from eight countries, we show that the "double Pareto lognormal" (DPLN) distribution provides a better fit to actual city sizes than the simple lognormal (LN) distribution. The DPLN has a lognormal body and features a power law in both the lower and the...