| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w15409 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 15409 |
| The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities | |
| Hernán D. Rozenfeld; Diego Rybski; Xavier Gabaix; Hernán A. Makse | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-10-08 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The distribution of the population of cities has attracted a great deal of attention, in part because it sharply constrains models of local growth. However, to this day, there is no consensus on the distribution below the very upper tail, because available data need to rely on the "legal" rather than "economic" definition of cities for medium and small cities. To remedy this difficulty, in this work we construct cities "from the bottom up" by clustering populated areas obtained from high-resolution data. This method allows us to investigate the population and area of cities for urban agglomerations of all sizes. We find that Zipf's law (a power law with exponent close to 1) for population holds for cities as small as 12,000 inhabitants in the USA and 5,000 inhabitants in Great Britain. In addition the distribution of city areas is also close to a Zipf's law. We provide a parsimonious model with endogenous city area that is consistent with those findings. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; General Equilibrium ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15409 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573085 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Hernán D. Rozenfeld,Diego Rybski,Xavier Gabaix,et al. The Area and Population of Cities: New Insights from a Different Perspective on Cities. 2009. |
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