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Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life Across Metropolitan Areas

Albouy, David - 2022

The standard revealed-preference estimate of a city's quality of life is proportional to that city's cost-of-living relative to its wage-level. Adjusting estimates to account for federal taxes, non-housing costs, and non-labor income produces more plausible quality-of-life estimates than in the...

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Agglomeration : A Dynamic Approach

Hanlon, William Walker - 2015

This paper studies the sources of agglomeration economies in cities. We begin by introducing a simple dynamic spatial … large, though there can be exceptions. Thus, dynamic agglomeration appears to be driven by cross-industry effects. Once we … control for these cross-industry agglomeration effects, we find a strong negative relationship between city size and city …

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Anatomy of the Beginning of the Housing Boom : U.S. Neighborhoods and Metropolitan Areas, 1993-2009

Ferreira, Fernando Vendramel - 2015

We provide novel estimates of the timing, magnitudes, and potential determinants of the start of the last housing boom across American neighborhoods and metropolitan areas (MSAs) using a rich new micro data set containing 23 million housing transactions in 94 metropolitan areas between 1993 and...

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The Making of the Modern Metropolis : Evidence from London

Heblich, Stephan - 2018

models within this class and find substantial agglomeration forces in both production and residence. In counterfactuals, we …

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Matching in Cities

Dauth, Wolfgang - 2018

In most countries, average wages tend to be higher in larger cities. In this paper, we focus on the role played by the matching of workers to firms in explaining geographical wage differences. Using rich administrative German data for 1985-2014, we show that wages in large cities are higher not...

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Market Frictions, Arbitrage, and the Capitalization of Amenities

Ouazad, Amine - 2019

The price-amenity arbitrage is a cornerstone of spatial economics, as the response of land and house prices to shifts in the quality of local amenities and public goods is typically used to reveal households' willingness to pay for amenities. With informational, time, and cash constraints,...

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The Wealth of Cities : Agglomeration Economies and Spatial Equilibrium in the United States

Glaeser, Edward L.; Gottlieb, Joshua D. - 2021

existence of agglomeration economies, which exist when productivity rises with density, but estimating the magnitude of those …

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Race and Health Disparities Among Seniors in Urban Areas in Brazil

Trujillo, Antonio J.; Vernon, John A.; Vernon, John A.; … - 2021

White seniors report better health than Black seniors in urban areas in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This is the case even after controlling for baseline health conditions and several demographic, socio-economic and family support characteristics. Furthermore, adjusted racial disparities in self-reported...

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Cities and Skills

Glaeser, Edward L.; Maré, David C. - 2021

This paper examines the productivity (and wage) gains from locating in dense, urban environments. We distinguish between three potential explanations of why firms are willing to pay urban workers more: (1) the urban wage premium is spurious and is the result of omitted ability measures, (2) the...

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How Did Location Affect Adoption of the Commercial Internet? Global Village, Urban Density, and Industry Composition

Forman, Christopher; Greenstein, Shane M.; Goldfarb, Avi - 2021

The authors test opposing theories on how urban locations influenced the diffusion of Internet technology. They find evidence that, controlling for industry, participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas. Nevertheless, talk of the dissolution of cities is...

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