We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting
patterns within large US cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with …

We document that nearly half of the global decline in agricultural employment was driven by
new cohorts entering the labor market. A new dataset of policy reforms supports an …

ABSTRACT The County Business Patterns data published by the US Census Bureau track
employment by county and industry from 1946 to the present. Two features of the data limit …

We study the long-term impact of large-scale irrigation infrastructure on the composition of
local economic activity in India. Our analysis uses high-resolution spatial data covering …

Virtually all theories of economic growth predict a positive relationship between population
size and productivity. In this paper, I study a particular historical episode to provide direct …

How do international trade shocks affect spatially connected regional markets? We answer
this question by extending shift-share empirical specifications to incorporate general …

We provide new theory and evidence on the role of external and internal integration in
structural transformation and economic development, using Argentina's integration into the …

Abstract Between 2000 and 2015, China's aggregate income quadrupled, its provincial
income inequality fell by a third, and its share of employment in agriculture fell by a half …

What do recent advances in economic geography teach us about the spatial distribution of
economic activity? We show that the equilibrium distribution of economic activity can be …

In most developing countries, wages are substantially higher in cities than in rural areas.
One possible explanation is that the higher wage levels of urban areas are offset by lower …