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

In this article, we revisit the relationship among institutions, human capital, and
development. We argue that empirical models that treat institutions and human capital as …

This paper synthesizes what economists have learned about human capital since Becker
(1962) into four stylized facts. First, human capital explains at least one-third of the variation …

From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes
a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the …

US cities today are vastly more educated and skill-intensive than they were five decades
ago. Yet, urban non-college workers perform substantially less skilled jobs than decades …

内容提要: 本文在增长回归框架下, 应用Arellano 与Bond 等人倡导的动态面板数据方法(
system2GMM 估计) 和传统的固定效应估计考察了教育对地区收入差异的影响. 实证分析发现 …

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 …

Leveraging the Tennessee STAR class size experiment, we show that Black students
randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 …

Will COVID-19 end the urban renaissance that many cities have experienced since the
1980s? This essay selectively reviews the copious literature that now exists on the long-term …

The smart city, as a new urbanization mode, provides a practicable initiative for achieving
the win-win situation of economic development and environmental protection. This paper …