3. Cities as Six- by- Six- Mile Squares: Zipf ’s Law?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Estimating Agglomeration Economies with History, Geology, and Worker Effects 15
6. 2. Dispersion in House Price and Income Growth across Markets: Facts and Theories 67
7. 3. Cities as Six- by- Six- Mile Squares: Zipf ’s Law? 105
8. 4. Labor Pooling as a Source of Agglomeration: An Empirical Investigation 133
9. 5. Urbanization, Agglomeration, and Coagglomeration of Service Industries 151
10. 6. Who Benefits Whom in the Neighborhood? Demographics and Retail Product Geography 181
11. 7. Understanding Agglomerations in Health Care 211
12. 8. The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors 237
13. 9. Small Establishments/ Big Effects: Agglomeration, Industrial Organization, and Entrepreneurship 277
14. 10. Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York? 303
15. 11. New Evidence on Trends in the Cost of Urban Agglomeration 339
16. Contributors 355
17. Author Index 357
18. Subject Index 361