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

By Edward L. Glaeser, Joshua D. Gottlieb. 2009

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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines (2015, positive): “We find similar results when using hedonic housing price regressions similar to Glaeser et al. (2010) to measure amenities of cities.”
History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railroads, Settlers and Cities in Kenya (2017, neutral): “This all changed after the Lancaster House Agreement of 1962, that led to independence from Britain in 1963.”
When are Cities Engines of Growth in China? Spread and Backwash Effects across the Urban Hierarchy (2013, background): “’ As G laeser and G ottlieb ( 2009 , abstract) describe, this means that ‘Empirical research on cities starts with a spatial equilibrium condition: workers and firms are assumed to be indifferent across space.”
Innovation with Limited Resources: Management Lessons from the German Mittelstand (2018, background): “Scholarly research provides compelling empirical evidence that innovative activity benefits from human capital and other resources gained by locating in densely populated urban areas (Glaeser and Gottlieb, 2009).”
Cluster-based industrialization in China: Financing and performance (2011, background): “Glaeser and Gottlieb (2009) emphasize the role of agglomeration in speeding the flow of ideas.”
Can high-speed rail have a transformative effect on the economy? (2017, background): “This is an old argument about the extent to which larger cities are more productive than smaller ones (Glaeser and Gottlieb, 2009).”
Agglomeration Effects in Colombia (2016, positive): “Higher housing prices and lower wages are the two main margins that we expect to be at work to equate utility across cities (Glaeser and Gottlieb, 2009).”
Co-invention networks and inventive productivity in US cities (2016, neutral): “…as measured by commuting ties. he choice of using EPO rather than USPTO data is fully discussed in Appendix A. p t c fi b o S c t b t l reativity in cities (Glaeser, 1999; Glaeser et al., 1992; Henderson, 003; Rosenthal and Strange, 2001; Rosenthal and Strange, 2008; laeser and Gottlieb, 2009).”
A Spatial Knowledge Economy (2019, background): “This matches the well-established empirical literature on the urban wage premium (Glaeser and Maré, 2001; Glaeser and Gottlieb, 2009).”
On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China (2012, background): “Along similar lines, it has been argued that the expansion of motor road networks in the United States promoted large-scale suburbanization and left many cities without a viable economic model (Glaeser and Gottlieb, 2009).”