TY  - JOUR
AU  - Glaeser,Edward L.
AU  - Scheinkman,Jose A.
AU  - Shleifer,Andrei
TI  - Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5013
PY  - 1995
Y2  - February 1995
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5013
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5013.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Edward L. Glaeser
Department of Economics
315A Littauer Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-0575
Fax: 617/495-7730
E-Mail: eglaeser@harvard.edu

Jose A. Scheinkman
Department of Economics
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ  08544-1021
Tel: 609/258-4020
Fax: 609/258-0771
E-Mail: joses@princeton.edu

Andrei Shleifer
Department of Economics
Harvard University
Littauer Center M-9
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-5046
Fax: 617/496-1708
E-Mail: ashleifer@harvard.edu
AB  - We examine the relationship between urban characteristics in 1960 and urban growth (income and population) between 1960 and 1990.  Our major findings are that income and population growth move together and both types of growth are (1) positively related to initial schooling, (2) negatively related to initial unemployment and (3) negatively related to the share of employment initially in manufacturing.  These results are qualitatively unchanged if we examine cities (a smaller political unit) or SMSAs (a larger 'economic' unit).  We also find that racial composition and segregation are basically uncorrelated with urban growth across all cities, but that in communities with large nonwhite communities segregation is positively correlated with white population growth.  Government expenditures (except for sanitation) are uncorrelated with urban growth.  Government debt is positively correlated with later growth.
ER  -