Acknowledgments ................................................ ix
Introduction .................................................... 1
Edward L. Glaeser
1. Estimating Agglomeration Economies with
History, Geology, and Worker Effects ....................... 15
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent
Gobillon, and Sébastien Roux
2. Dispersion in House Price and Income Growth across
Markets: Facts and Theories ................................ 67
Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai
3. Cities as Six-by-Six-Mile Squares: Zipf's Law? ............ 105
Thomas J. Holmes and Sanghoon Lee
4. Labor Pooling as a Source of Agglomeration: An Empirical
Investigation ............................................. 133
Henry G. Overman and Diego Puga
5. Urbanization, Agglomeration, and Coagglomeration of
Service Industries ........................................ 151
Jed Kolko
6. Who Benefits Whom in the Neighborhood?
Demographics and Retail Product Geography ................. 181
Joel Waldfogel
7. Understanding Agglomerations in Health Care ............... 211
Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra
8. The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors ................ 237
William R. Kerr
9. Small Establishments/Big Effects: Agglomeration,
Industrial Organization, and Entrepreneurship ............. 277
Stuart S. Rosenthal and William С. Strange
10. Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New
York? ..................................................... 303
Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto
11. New Evidence on Trends in the Cost of Urban
Agglomeration ............................................. 339
Matthew E. Kahn
Contributors .................................................. 355
Author Index .................................................. 357
Subject Index ................................................. 361
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