This paper demonstrates that rising crime rates in cities are correlated with city depopulation. Instrumental variables estimates, using measures of the certainty and severity of a state?s criminal justice system as instruments for city crime rates, imply that the direction of causality runs...

This paper draws from the view of social historians and hypothesizes that both wealthy and Protestant residents of Dublin were fleeing the city due to distaste for its local government politics and taxation, in an era when local government was gaining importance. We use a limited...

We document large-scale urban flight in the United States in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Populations that flee are disproportionately younger, whiter, and wealthier. Regions that saw migrant influx experience greater subsequent COVID-19 case growth, suggesting that urban flight was a...

Many of the world's major cities have attracted a flurry of out-of-town (OOT) home buyers. Such capital inflows affect house prices, rents, construction, labor income, wealth, and ultimately welfare. We develop an equilibrium model, calibrated to the typical U.S. metropolitan area, to quantify...

Während Lübeck in der Nachwendezeit unter deutlichen Bevölkerungsverlusten litt, verzeichnet die Stadt seit 2010 wieder steigende Bevölkerungszahlen. Motor dieser Entwicklung ist ein positiver Wanderungssaldo, der die nachteiligen Effekte einer negativen demografischen Entwicklung...

Während Lübeck in der Nachwendezeit unter deutlichen Bevölkerungsverlusten litt, verzeichnet die Stadt seit 2010 wieder steigende Bevölkerungszahlen. Motor dieser Entwicklung ist ein positiver Wanderungssaldo, der die nachteiligen Effekte einer negativen demografischen Entwicklung...

Millennials move to the land -- Henry David Thoreau's search for freedom -- Secular utopias of the 1840s -- Going back-to-the-land during America's first Gilded Age -- Scott and Helen nearing live the good life -- Food fights -- Hippie food -- Tranfsorming the food system from seed to table --...

The covid-19 pandemic induced a major shift in the prevalence of remote and hybrid work arrangements. This article reviews the effects of this remote work revolution for residential and commercial real estate values and for the future of cities. It also discusses consequences for productivity,...

Migration, remittances, welfare, expenditure patterns, agricultural production, diversification, fixed-effect regression. length of migration, migration intensity, Vietnam. - Rücküberweisung, Wohlfahrt, Ausgabenstruktur, landwirtschaftliche Produktion, Diversifikation, Fixed-Effekt-Regression,...

In China führten Reformen seit 1978 zu gewaltigen wirtschaftlichen Umwälzungen, doch die zunehmende Urbanisierung stellt das Land vor große Herausforderungen. Zunächst fehlt für die Produktivitätssteigerung der Industrie ein adäquates ländliches Bildungssystem. Zweitens verbleiben durch...

Migration, remittances, welfare, expenditure patterns, agricultural production, diversification, fixed-effect regression. length of migration, migration intensity, Vietnam. - Rücküberweisung, Wohlfahrt, Ausgabenstruktur, landwirtschaftliche Produktion, Diversifikation, Fixed-Effekt-Regression,...

This paper presents an analog to Cournot duopoly in a model of the local public sector, with one city and a suburb. Reaction functions are derived for the mayor of the city and of the suburb, and properties of the Nash equilibria are analyzed. The translation of the Cournot duopoly model is not...

The ‘flight from blight’ and related literatures on urban population changes and crime have primarily considered times of high or increasing crime rates. Perhaps the most cited recent work in this area, Cullen and Levitt (1999), does not extend through 1990s, a decade during which crime...

The media and policy makers often mention that China manipulates its real exchange rate (RER) in order to improve its exports and boost growth. This view, however, is not supported by the most prominent economic models, which do not predict a positive relationship between real undervaluation and...

We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth performance in the Chinese case as argued by Weitzman in a...

We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth performance in the Chinese case as argued by Weitzman in a...

Turkey is facing a slight but remarkable reversal in population flows between settlements, a movement known as counterurbanisation. The aim of this paper is to investigate the new patterns of population flows linked to changes in employment. To explore these patterns, the paper focuses on the...

This paper presents the impact of income inequality on the subjective wellbeing of three different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, "born" urban residents, and "acquired" urban residents who had changed their hukou...

Members of the baby boom cohort, now 45-63 years old, are approaching a period in their lives when moves to rural and small-town destinations increase. An analysis of age-specific, net migration during the 1990s reveals extensive shifts in migration patterns as Americans move through different...

Homeownership rates in suburbs are much higher than in central cities. This paper shows that the systematic difference between homeownership rates causes suburbanization. We consider an economy with several regions: the central city, where most households rent, and the suburbs, where most own....

This research situates new farmers within the counter-urbanization phenomenon, explores their urban–rural migration experiences and examines how they are becoming a part of the rural agricultural landscape. Key characteristics in new farmers’ sense of place constructions are revealed through...

The sociodemographic redefinition of rural space is a recent phenomena in Québec compared to France and the United Kingdom. First, the author presents a brief historical overview of the related studies completed in Québec, followed by the results of an exploratory research which she undertook...