The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

By Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, S. Redding, Daniel M Sturm, Nikolaus Wolf. 2012

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Commuting, Migration, and Local Employment Elasticities (2018, background): “In Column (4) we also include the average wage and total employment in neighboring counties.”
The Average and Heterogeneous Effects of Transportation Investments: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa 1960–2010 (2020, positive): “3 More generally, a large literature has looked at how market access affects the growth of neighborhoods (Ahlfeldt et al., 2015), cities (Redding and Sturm, 2008), regions (Hanson, 1998), and countries (Feyrer, 2009).”
Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico’s Coastline (2019, methodology): “We build on the theoretical framework developed by Allen & Arkolakis (2014), Ahlfeldt et al. (2015) and Redding (2015), and extend it to capture the economic forces that are relevant in our context.”
The Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Striking Evidence from the London Underground Network (2017, neutral): “Ahlfeldt et al. (2015) for example suggest that a 10 minute commute reduces utility by 14 percentage points.”
Trade, Migration, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis of China (2019, methodology): “Our general equilibrium model of trade and migration builds on the works by Eaton and Kortum (2002), Ahlfeldt et al. (2012) and Redding (2015). The model features two tradable sectors and multiple regions of China between which goods and labour may flow.”
Quantitative Spatial Economics (2017, positive): “In this case, the unobserved location characteristics (such as production and residential fundamentals) again correspond to structural residuals that exactly rationalize the observed data as an equilibrium of the model, as shown by Ahlfeldt et al. (2015).”
Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation (2019, neutral): “(2015) for land misallocation in India, and Ahlfeldt et al. (2015) for infrastructure.”
How Close Is Close? The Spatial Reach of Agglomeration Economies (2020, background): “Although measured based on travel time and not distance, results from Ahlfeldt et al (2015) similarly suggest rapid attenuation.”
The Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia (2017, neutral): “(2018)andAhlfeldtetal.”
Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India (2020, background): “(1) (2) (3) (4) Dependent variable Δ Shape, km Δ Log area Shape, km Log area Δ Potential shape, km 1.”
Accounting for central neighborhood change, 1980–2010 (2020, methodology): “Crucially, we treat CBSA-level allocations gjt(r; x) and populations Njt as exogenous to the allocation of people across neighborhoods, which can be justi ed in a long-run open-city model as in Ahlfeldt et al. (2015).”
The economic effects of density: A synthesis (2019, positive): “As an example, the urban economics and economic geography literature over the past decades has produced robust evidence that density has positive effects on productivity (e.g. Ciccone & Hall 1996; Ahlfeldt et al. 2015; Combes et al. 2012).”
Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography, and Sorting* (2018, positive): “In an extension, we also derive optimal transfers in the case where economic activity in one location may generate spillovers in other locations in the spirit of Rossi-Hansberg (2005) and recent quantitative studies such as Ahlfeldt et al. (2015) and Desmet and Rossi-Hansberg (2014).”
Gravity Equations: Workhorse,Toolkit, and Cookbook (2013, neutral): “Ahlfeldt et al. (2012) draw on Eaton and Kortum (2002) to specify a commuting gravity model.”