Human capital development, attractions of sustainable living standards and renewed
concerns for the planet have redirected city planners to a new frontier: the creation of …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and
innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation …

本文利用2005 年l% 人口抽样调查中劳动力流动的微观数据与220 个地级市的城市特征数据,
研究了公共服务与工资等城市特征对劳动力流向的影响. 估计结果显示, 劳动力选择流向某个 …

城市发展的规模经济效应有利于提高劳动力个人的就业概率, 而不像通常人们所认为的那样,
外来移民会挤占原有居民的就业机会. 使用工具变量, 对个人层面的就业决定模型进行估计发现 …

The economic convergence of American regions has greatly slowed, and rates of long-term
nonemployment have even been diverging. Simultaneously, the rate of non-employment for …

This paper studies whether distance shapes credit allocation by estimating the impact of
bank branch closings during the 2000s on local access to credit. To generate plausibly …

From 1980 to 2000, the rise in the US college/high school graduate wage gap coincided
with increased geographic sorting as college graduates concentrated in high wage, high …

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of
proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in …

Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while
Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number …

High skilled workers gain from face to face interactions. If the skilled can move at higher
speeds, then knowledge diffusion and idea spillovers are more likely to reach greater …