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| Title: | | The size distribution across all "cities": A unifying approach  |
| Authors: | | Giesen, Kristian Suedekum, Jens |
| Issue Date: | | 2012 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6352 |
| Abstract: | | In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether cities are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model that combines scale-independent urban growth (Gibrat's law) with endogenous city creation. City sizes converge to a DPLN distribution in this model, which is much better in line with the data than previous urban growth frameworks that predict a lognormal or a Pareto city size distribution (Zipf's law). |
| Subjects: | | Zipf's law Gibrat's law city size distributions double Pareto-Lognormal |
| JEL: | | R11 R12 O4 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-201205026189 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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