Urbanization and Structural Transformation

By Guy Michaels, Ferdinand Rauch, Stephen J. Redding. 2008

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Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined (2017, neutral): “5 See Barro and Sala-i Martin (1992) , Caselli and Coleman, 2001 ), Michaels et al. (2012) , and ( Hsieh et al., 2013 ).”
The empirics of new economic geography (2010, neutral): “Finally, while Zipf’s and Gibrat’s Laws are reasonable approximations for cities, recent research incorporating rural as well as urban areas provides evidence of large and systematic departures from both, including Michaels, Rauch, and Redding (2008) and Holmes and Lee (2007).”
The city size distribution debate: Resolution for US urban regions and megalopolitan areas (2012, methodology): “Michaels et al. (2008), using sub-country data for the US from 1880 to 2000, reject both Gibrat’s Law and the idea of a stable population distribution.”
Does investment in national highways help or hurt hinterland city growth? (2018, neutral): “Theoretical foundations for this sort of formulation of market potential include Redding and Venables’ (2004), Hanson’s (2005) and Head and Mayer’s (2005) adaptations of Fujita, Krugman and Venables’ (1999) NEG model.”
The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities (2010, neutral): “…GB and useful discussions; C. Briscoe and R. Tumarkin for help with the manuscript; and S. Brakman, M. Davis, G. Duranton, H. Garretsen, E. Rossi-Hansberg, Y. Ioannides, P. Krugman, C. van Marrewijk, P.-D. Sarte and seminar participants at NYU, Princeton and the Richmond Fed for helpful comments.”
Sequential city growth in the us: does age matter? (2013, neutral): “On the other hand, Michaels et al. (2012) regress population growth on a full set of fixed effects for initial population density using their self-made dataset of county subdivisions finding an increasing relationship between population growth and initial population density in intermediate…”
Agricultural Productivity and Structural Transformation. Evidence (2016, background): “The second is the introduction of a second harvesting season for maize during the same agricultural year.”
Transportation Costs and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity (2014, neutral): “Michaels et al. (2012) uses an even earlier plan of the U.”
Urbanization with and without industrialization (2015, background): “As countries develop, people move out of rural areas and agricultural activities into urban centers, where they engage in manufacturing and service activities (Gollin et al. 2002; Michaels et al. 2012).”
Growth in a Cross-section of Cities: Location, Increasing Returns or Random Growth? (2015, neutral): “, 2001), minor civil divisions (Michaels et al., 2012), metropolitan areas (Dobkins and Ioannides, 2001; Black and Henderson, 2003; Ioannides and Overman, 2003) and urbanised areas (Garmestani et al.”