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Urban Mobility and the Experienced Isolation of Students and Adults

Cook, Cody; Currier, Lindsey; Glaeser, Edward L. - 2022

Do urban children live more segregated lives than urban adults? Using cellphone location data and following the 'experienced isolation' methodology of Athey et al. (2021), we compare the isolation of students over the age of 16--who we identify based on their time spent at a high school--and...

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Information Technology and the Future of Cities

Gaspar, Jess; Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021

Will improvements in information technology eliminate face-to- face interactions and make cities obsolete? In this paper, we present a model where individuals make contacts and choose whether to use electronic or face-to-face meetings in their interactions. Cities are modeled as a means of...

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Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kohlhase, Janet E. - 2021

The theoretical framework of urban and regional economics is built on transportation costs for manufactured goods. But over the twentieth century, the costs of moving these goods have declined by over 90% in real terms, and there is little reason to doubt that this decline will continue....

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Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kohlhase, Janet E. - 2003

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Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

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Overview -- the Urban Imperative : Toward Shared Prosperity

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2017

Urbanization is undoubtedly a key driver of development -- cities provide the national platform for prosperity, job creation, and poverty reduction. But urbanization also poses enormous challenges that one is familiar with: congestion, air pollution, social divisions, crime, the breakdown of...

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Big Data and Big Cities : The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures for Urban Life

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2016

New, “big” data sources allow measurement of city characteristics and outcome variables higher frequencies and finer geographic scales than ever before. However, big data will not solve large urban social science questions on its own. Big data has the most value for the study of cities when...

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Big data and big cities : the promises and limitations of improved measures of urban life

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Luca, Michael; … - 2015

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Big data and big cities : the promises and limitations of improved measures of urban life

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Luca, Michael; … - 2015

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Big Data and Big Cities : The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2015

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Big Data and Big Cities : The Promises and Limitations of Improved Measures of Urban Life

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2015

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Housing Booms and City Centers

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2015

Popular discussions often treat the great housing boom of the 1996-2006 period as if it were a national phenomenon with similar impacts across locales, but across metropolitan areas, price growth was dramatically higher in warmer, less educated cities with less initial density and higher initial...

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Housing Booms and City Centers

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2012

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Urban Inequality

Glaeser, Edward L.; Resseger, Matthew; Tobio, Kristina - 2014

What impact does inequality have on metropolitan areas? Crime rates are higher in places with more inequality, and people in unequal cities are more likely to say that they are unhappy. There is also a negative association between local inequality and the growth of both income and population,...

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Urban Inequality

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

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Urban Inequality

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2008

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Overview -- The Urban Imperative : Toward Shared Prosperity

Glaeser, Edward L.; Joshi-Ghani, Abha - 2014

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Consumer City

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kolko, Jed; Saiz, Albert - 2012

Urban economics has traditionally viewed cities as having advantages in production and disadvantages in consumption. We argue that the role of urban density in facilitating consumption is extremely important and understudied. As firms become more mobile, the success of cities hinges more and...

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Consumer City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2001

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