The spatial segregation of college-educated and non-college-educated workers between
commuting zones in the United States has steadily grown since 1980. We summarize prior …

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 …

Urban economics and branches of mainstream economics–what we call the 'housing as
opportunity'school of thought–have been arguing that shortages of affordable housing in …

Relatively little research has explored whether there is a systemic urban-rural divide in the
political and socioeconomic attitudes of citizens across Europe. Drawing on individual-level …

This paper synthesises the state of knowledge on the economic effects of density. We
consider 347 estimates of density elasticities of a broad range of outcomes ranging from …

What determines the distributions of skills, occupations, and industries across cities? We
develop a theory to jointly address these fundamental questions about the spatial …

Between 1940 and 1980 the wage gap between poorer US cities and richer ones was
shrinking at an annual rate of roughly 1.4%. After 1980, however, there was no further …

Despite the large urban–rural education gap observed in most countries, little attention has
been paid to whether cities actually enjoy a comparative advantage in the production of …

The evidence for connections between subjective well-being and spatial factors remains
inconclusive, especially with respect to the immediate living environment. To fill this gap, this …

Every country, every subnational government, and every district has a designated
population, and this has a bearing on politics in ways most citizens and policymakers are …