Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the
common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting stable families …

Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow
faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of …

We investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed
database of 1,569 subnational regions from 110 countries covering 74% of the world's …

Research on the labor market impact of immigration typically relies on a single-good model
of production with separable capital. This article discusses theory and evidence that suggest …

We document large long-run differences in average house price appreciation across
metropolitan areas over the past 50 years, and show they can be explained by an inelastic …

While nominal wage differences between skilled and unskilled workers have increased
since 1980, college graduates have experienced larger increases in cost of living because …

Labor turnover is a commonly cited mechanism for the transmission of technology from
multinational to domestic firms. Using a matched establishment-worker database from Brazil …

As Europe is currently characterized by huge disparities in the economic performance of
“old” and “new” states, we investigate whether this is the result of local agglomeration …

Immigration impacts on the economy in ample ways: it affects growth, wages and total factor
productivity. This study deals with the effects of immigration on firm exports. Can firms benefit …

Abstract This paper exploits the episode provided by the mass migration from the former
Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s to study the effect high skill immigration on productivity …