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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"city size"”.
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Beyond city size : characterizing and predicting the location of urban amenities
Intercity studies have shown that a city's characteristics -ranging from infrastructure to crime-scale as a power of its population. These studies, however, have not been extended to the intra-city scale, leaving open the question of how urban characteristics are distributed within a city. Here we …
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A Description of Texas Municipal Forestry Programs: How Critical Program Elements Vary According to City Size, Expenditures, and Assistance from the State
… in Texas municipalities vary according to city size, expenditures, and assistance from Texas A&M Forest Service. The six critical program elements are 1) staffing levels, 2) tree ordinances, 3) advocacy, 4) urban forest management plans, 5) tree inventories, and 6) the program's status in …
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Wage suppression of married women induced by geographic immobility
… than those of men or single women to the size of the local labor market. The empirical findings from a 1/1000 sample from the 1980 Census indicate that the positive impact of city size on earnings is in fact larger for married women than for married men; in other words, the wage gap …
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Essays on the Size Distribution of Cities
… distinct perspectives.Chapter 1: Explaining the Size Distribution of Cities: X-treme Economies. The empirical regularity known as Zipf's law or the rank-size rule has motivated development of a theoretical literature to explain it. We examine the assumptions on consumer behavior, particularly …
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Manufacturing in United States Metropolitan Areas: Estimation of the Profit Function and Policy Simulations
… before in related works are considered, such as city size, size of the manufacturing sector, construction of an output price index, index for quality of capital, and stability of coefficients over time. Finally, the welfare effects of various government policies are calculated.
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THREE ESSAYS IN URBAN AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS
… when estimating the productivity effects of city size. For single peaked factor return distributions, selecting out low-performing agents has limited effect on modal productivity but reduces the CDF evaluated at the mode. Spillovers from agglomeration have the reverse effect. Estimates based …
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Regional economic disparities: the role of agglomeration, deindustrialisation and industrial policy
… specific research questions; (i) does average city size impact national economic growth? (ii) does decentralisation impact national economic growth? and (iii) is the impact of city size on economic growth mitigated by the degree of decentralisation? The research questions for Chapter 4 are i) …
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Counting Errors: How Misunderstanding of China's Local Population and Employment Counts Affects Economic Analysis
… These issues are regional inequality, optimal city size, the city size distribution, the nature, location and size of urbanization economies, and the determinants of urban land area expansion. Each issue is studied in a single, self-contained, paper that in some cases has already appeared in a …
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Quantitative Urbanism: A Look at Illinois Cities Using Modeling
… that exist between cities and their size. Many aspects of cities, such as crime rates, energy usage, and wealth, have been shown to change exponentially in relation to city size. This paper explores multiple urban indicators vs. population size for cities in Illinois and discusses the …
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Autonomous city form
… us a chance to rethink and redefine the art of city design, centered as much on the quality of public space as on economic efficiency. Transportation is the backbone of urbanism. What is a city if not a group of buildings distributed in space and thus functioning together. Historically, …
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Essays on location and trade
… find that what specialization does exist in a city is not necessarily associated with growth in an industry in a city. For some industries, increased specialization is associated with negative growth. Overall, growth in an industry in a city is more often associated with a growing labor force …
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Factors influencing loyalty towards startup products /
… characteristics like age, gender, education, city size, and income, the study aimed to discern correlations with purchasing behavior and impact of some factors on loyalty towards startup products. The methodology involved descriptive statistics to gauge the importance of factors to …
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On the Effect of Ignoring Within-Unit Infectious Disease Dynamics When Modelling Spatial Transmission
… test the effect of ignoring within-unit (e.g., city) infectious disease dynamics when we model spatial transmission. We do this by generating our epidemic data sets from a true model which considers within unit dynamics. It is often hard to get individual-level data in reality. Also, the R …
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Investigating Climate Impacts of Urbanization and the Potential for Cool Roofs to Mitigate the Kansas City Metropolitan Area’s Urban Heat Island Effect
… heat wave event (i.e. July 2012) in the Kansas City metropolitan area (KCMA). First a suite of sensitivity simulations is performed and analyzed in order to determine the best combination of physical parameterizations for subsequent scenarios. Next, the difference in urban temperatures from 1938 …
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Peri-urban development in Africa: a Kenyan case study
… to refer to residential development at a city’s edge. No one, however, has developed a precise definition of peri-urban areas which guides this research. This study attempts to define peri-urban areas using an urban economic model and analyzes the African peri-urban literature in the …
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Urbanization and Demographic Change in Sub-Saharan Africa: Three essays on fertility and child mortality differentials in a rapidly urbanizing context
… is diminishing, accounting for differentials in city size and potential bias in survival rates due to migration. I find the overall under-5 survival advantage of urban over rural areas persists but that there is a widening of the advantage in the largest cities over smaller urban areas. In the …
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Three essays on automation, trade, and inequality
… stylized facts about the relationship between city size and the routineness of tasks performed by workers. I develop a general equilibrium model of a spatial economy where automation affects the type of tasks performed by workers and is related to a firm's choice of production location. The …
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The impact and optimization of the urban industrial mix
… density's relationship to productivity and that city finances are strained as cities lose manufacturing and gain service sectors.
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The Small-Town NFL Player
… of sport compared to a player from a large urban city. Where an athlete is raised is important in understanding how they were introduced to football and how they developed their skills. Using the United States Census Bureau and Office of Management and Budget definition and city breakdowns for …
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La Citè (post) Industrielle. Efficienza energetica urbana
… scale (urban or land scale) in relation to the city size and shape. In a time when energy world situation is asking for a transition toward new alternative sources, interesting research have already confirmed the deep relationship between energy consumptions and urban morphology through the …
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