Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246695 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 618
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
This paper introduces a new city-level panel dataset constructed using satellite nighttime light imagery and grid population data. The dataset contains over 1,500 cities covering 43 economies of Asia and the Pacific from 1992 to 2016. With the dataset, we perform a variety of analyses for Asia and the Pacific as a whole as well as five individual countries in the region. The exercise produces some novel evidence on several interrelated topics including urbanization status and patterns, relations between urbanization and economic growth, evolution of urban systems, primate cities, testing Zipf's law and Gibrat's law, the drivers of city growth, and emergence of city clusters.
Subjects: 
city cluster
city growth
Gibrat's law
nighttime lights
primate city
Zipf's law
JEL: 
R11
R12
O18
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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