Growth in Cities
1992/12/01 by Edward L. Glaeser, Hedi D. Kallal, Hédi Kallal +3 · 4,608 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Competition (biology) #Economic Growth and Productivity #Economic geography #Economic growth #Economics #Endogenous growth theory #Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth #Geography #Growth theory #Human capital #Neoclassical economics #Pace #Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis #Romer #Set (abstract data type) #Test (biology) #Variety (cybernetics)
paper · doi:10.1086/261856
published in Journal of Political Economy 100(6), 1126-1152 (University of Chicago Press)
openalex publication_date 1992/12/01 · openalex created_date 2021/02/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Abstract
Recent theories of economic growth, including those of P. Romer (1986, 1990), M. Porter (1990), and J. Jacobs (1969, 1984), have stressed the role of technological spillovers in generating growth. Because such knowledge spillovers are particularly effective in cities, where communication between people is more extensive, data on the growth of industries in different cities allow the authors to test some of these theories. Using a new data set on the growth of large industries in 170 U.S. cities between 1956 and 1987, they find that local competition and urban variety, but not regional specialization, encourage employment growth in industries. The evidence suggests that important knowledge spillovers might occur between rather than within industries. Copyright 1992 by University of Chicago Press.
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