A “provocative”(Kirkus Reviews), timely, and topical work that examines what's good for American business and what's good for Americans—and why those interests are …
In From Boom to Bubble, Rachel Weber debunks the idea that booms occur only when cities are growing and innovating. Instead, she argues, even in cities experiencing employment …
NATIONAL BORDERS SEEM increasingly porous. Nearly 215 million persons now live in a country where they were not born, so immigrants account for about 3 percent of the world's …
In this study, we use cross‐country bilateral data to quantify a two‐step process of international migration and its aggregate determinants. We first analyze which country …
Using administrative German data, we show that large cities allow for a more efficient matching between workers and firms and this has important consequences for geographical …
La geografia economica è cambiata, crescono le disparità. Ma il futuro delle città e delle regioni, e quindi delle nazioni, non è mai scritto. Nulla condanna a essere periferia. Il XXI …
We introduce the first publicly available data set of constant‐quality house price indices for counties, ZIP codes and census tracts in the United States, at an annual frequency, over a …
S Zheng, ME Kahn - Journal of Economic Literature, 2013 - aeaweb.org
China's ongoing urban economic growth has sharply increased the population's per capita income, lowered the count of people living below the poverty line, and caused major …
M Bertrand, A Morse - Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016 - direct.mit.edu
We document that nonrich households consume a larger share of their current income when exposed to higher top income and consumption levels. Permanent income, wealth effects …