Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004
We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of … cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in … the joint results from the wage and rent regressions are consistent with a dominant production amenity effect of cultural …