The Economics of Agglomeration

Edward L. Glaeser

Conference held November 30-December 1, 2007
Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press


The following chapters are preliminary drafts unless otherwise noted. They have not yet been subjected to the formal review process of the NBER. This page will be updated as individual chapters are revised.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Edward L. Glaeser (bibliographic info) (download) version of March 19, 2009

1. Estimating Agglomeration Economies with History, Geology, and Worker Effects: Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Sébastien Roux (bibliographic info) (download) version of March 19, 2009

2. Dispersion in House Price and Income Growth Across Markets: Facts and Theories: Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, Todd Sinai (bibliographic info) (download)

3. Cities as Six-By-Six-Mile Squares: Zipf’s Law?: Thomas J. Holmes, Sanghoon Lee (bibliographic info) (download) version of March 19, 2009

4. Labor Pooling as a Source of Agglomeration: An Empirical Investigation: Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga

5. Urbanization, Agglomeration, and Co-Agglomeration of Service Industries: Jed Kolko (bibliographic info) (download) version of March 19, 2009

6. Who Benefits Whom in the Neighborhood? Demographics and Retail Product Geography: Joel Waldfogel (bibliographic info) (download) version of March 19, 2009

7. Understanding Agglomerations in Healthcare: Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra

8. The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors: William R. Kerr

9. Small Establishments/Big Effects: Agglomeration, Industrial Organization and Entrepreneurship: Stuart S. Rosenthal, William C. Strange (bibliographic info) (download) version of March 19, 2009

10. Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?: Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto (bibliographic info) (download) version of March 19, 2009

11. New Evidence on Trends in the Cost of Urban Agglomeration: Matthew E. Kahn (bibliographic info) (download) version of March 19, 2009

 

 
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