Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities: Reply

By Jan Eeckhout. 2009

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Urbanization and Structural Transformation (2008, unknown): “Neither paper examines the relationship between structural transformation and urbanization an analysis for which our newly-constructed 10See also Eeckhout (2008) and Levy (2008).”
US city size distribution: Robustly Pareto, but only in the tail (2013, methodology): “Our starting point is therefore that even in the Places data for which Eeckhout (2004, 2009) claims lognormality, the fit of the lognormal in the tail is highly questionable, which motivates our switching model.”
The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities (2010, unknown): “The analysis of 25,359 places in the USA has suggested that Zipf’s law holds in the upper tail (Levy 2009) but fails in the bulk of the distribution, as legally defined cities follow a log-normal distribution rather than a powerlaw (Eeckhout 2004, 2009).”
City Age and City Size (2014, methodology): “The debate between Levy (2009) and Eeckhout (2009) may thus also be settled by our finding that the sizes of Census places are better approximated by a DPLN distribution.”
The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail (2013, methodology): “Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Economics Letters journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ecolet The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail Marco Bee a, Massimo Riccaboni b,c,∗, Stefano Schiavo d,a,e a Department of Economics and Management, University of T”
The city size distribution debate: Resolution for US urban regions and megalopolitan areas (2012, background): “The continued use of such units by, for example, Eeckhout (2004, 2009) and those building on his re- 12 Bee et al. (2011) argue that a maximum entropy test may be superior to UMPU estimates.”