How much does disease depress development in human capital and income around the
world? I discuss a range of micro evidence, which finds that health is both human capital …

ABSTRACT I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market
outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general …

We quantify agglomeration spillovers by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP)
among incumbent plants in “winning” counties that attracted a large manufacturing plant and …

We examine peer effects in early education by estimating value-added models with school
fixed effects that control extensively for individual, family, peer, and teacher characteristics to …

It is often asserted that a highly educated workforce is vital to improving the competitive
position of American businesses, especially by boosting entrepreneurship. To examine this …

This paper shows that 'location matters' in terms of premiums on creative clusters and peak
ages. The analysis is based on the 214 most prominent modern visual artists born 1850 …

There are many fundamental issues in regional and urban economics that hinge on worker
skills. This paper builds on psychological approaches to learning to characterize the role of …

At the interface of regional and labor economics, our paper deals with two central topics in
the analysis of wage formation, the urban wage premium and the firm-size earnings …

In this paper, a survey is presented of the recent developments in two empirical literatures at
the crossroads of labour and urban economics: studies about localised human capital …

This article shows, using data from both the USA and the UK, that average plant size is
larger in denser markets. However, many popular theories of agglomeration—spillovers …