Most papers on creative industries ask whether they are a source of Marshallian or Jacobian effects, inasmuch as a stronger creative sector is a direction of diversification that could have positive spillovers onto the rest of the economy. While most works have focused on developed economies, I...

We investigate the role of industrial structure in labor productivity growth in U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 using a new dataset constructed from the Census of Manufactures. We find that increases in specialization were associated with faster productivity growth but that diversity only had...

We investigate the role of industrial structure in labor productivity growth in U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 using a new dataset constructed from the Census of Manufactures. We find that increases in specialization were associated with faster productivity growth but that diversity only had...