Ability Sorting and Consumer City

By Sanghoon Lee. 2010

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Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas (2008, background): “Heterogeneous tastes across different household types for cities and amenities have gener- ally been addressed by examining wage differences (e.g. Roback 1988; Beeson 1991; Black, Kolesnikova, and Taylor 2009; and Lee 2010).”
Skills in the city (2009, background): “20 See for example, Neal and Johnson (1996) on the AFQT, Bowles et al.”
The attenuation of human capital spillovers (2008, background): “3 Lee (2005), considering health care workers, also finds that workers with less skill benefit more from agglomeration. an individual worker, we treat the worker as being situated at the geographic centroid of the PWPUMA, with employment for each individual PWPUMA uniformly distributed throughout…”
Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities (2013, background): “Gyourko, Mayer, and Sinai (2006) find evidence to this effect in housing markets.”
Productive Cities: Sorting, Selection, and Agglomeration (2014, background): “That larger cities host more talented individuals is documented extensively in the literature ðe.g., Berry and Glaeser 2005; Bacolod et al. 2009; Lee 2010; Combes, Duranton, Gobillon, and Roux 2012; Diamond 2013Þ.15 For 276 US MSAs in 2000, the elasticity of the share of college 15 Consistent with…”
Cities and product variety: evidence from restaurants (2015, background): “…many canonical economics models (e.g. Dixit and Stiglitz, 1977) and more recent work in urban economics suggests that consumption amenities, especially local or nontradable goods, are a significant force driving people to live in cities (Glaeser et al., 2001; Chen and Rosenthal, 2008; Lee, 2010).”
Beautiful city: Leisure amenities and urban growth (2019, background): “Demand for variety may also increase more than proportionately with income, as high-skill individuals account for a larger share of the workforce in large cities (Lee, 2010).”