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 …

Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow
faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of …

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of
outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of …

The allocation of administrative resources is of vital importance, especially when discussing
the process of urbanization in China. Under the unique political and administrative systems …

We quantify the amount of spatial misallocation of labor across US cities and its aggregate
costs. Misallocation arises because high productivity cities like New York and the San …

We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local
determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms …

We explore the role of natural characteristics in determining the worldwide spatial
distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, observed across 240,000 grid …

Do natural resources benefit producer economies, or is there a “Natural Resource Curse”,
perhaps as the crowd-out of manufacturing productivity spillovers reduces long-term …

Many of the insights of economics seem to be qualitative, with many fewer reliable
quantitative laws. However a series of power laws in economics do count as true and …

We study the long-run effects of one of the most ambitious regional development programs
in US history: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Using as controls authorities that were …