Skilled cities II

Courtesy AustinContrarian  Tue, 07/07/2009 - 4:03pm

While I'm in this nerdy mood, let me point to this paper  by Jaison Abel, Ishita Dey and Todd Gabe:

We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is enhanced by a metropolitan area’s stock of human capital.

Using new measures of output per worker for U.S. metropolitan areas along with two measures of density that account for different aspects of the spatial distribution of population, we find that a doubling...



 

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