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Network structure and city size. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Network structure varies across cities. This variation may yield important knowledge about how the internal structure of the city affects its performance.
David Levinson
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The effect of city size on the disability rate of the older adults: empirical evidence from CHARLS data [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundExploring the value orientation of city development from the perspective of people’s well-being is key to clarifying the current debate on city size strategies.MethodsBased on the survey data of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal ...
Huan Liu +3 more
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Inequality and City Size. [PDF]
Rev Econ Stat, 2013 Abstract A strong positive monotonic relationship between wage inequality and city size developed between 1979 and 2007 in the United States. After accounting for differences in skill composition across cities of different sizes, we find that at least 23% of the nationwide increase in the variance of log hourly wages is explained by the ...
Baum-Snow N, Pavan R.
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Effects of Polycentricity on Economic Performance and Its Dependence on City Size: The Case of China
Land, 2022 Polycentric planning strategies have often failed to achieve the expected effects. The ensuing uncertainty associated with the desirability of polycentric strategies is also reflected in the early literature which offers no clear conclusion about whether
Bindong Sun +3 more
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City size based scaling of the urban internal nodes layout. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 The size of a city is not only essential for depicting the scale of the urban system, but also crucial to support the prosperity, order, and high-speed developments.
Wenhan Feng +3 more
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City size and the spreading of COVID-19 in Brazil. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 The current outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an unprecedented example of how fast an infectious disease can spread around the globe (especially in urban areas) and the enormous impact it causes on public health and socio-economic ...
Haroldo V Ribeiro +4 more
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MetaZipf. A dynamic meta-analysis of city size distributions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The results from urban scaling in recent years have held the promise of increased efficiency to the societies who could actively control the distribution of their cities' size.
Clémentine Cottineau
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The impact of city size on income inclusive growth: A human capital perspective and evidence from China. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis paper methodically investigates the influence of inclusive income growth on city size, examining it through the dual lenses of "income" and "distribution." The analysis leverages meticulously collected panel data encompassing 276 Chinese cities at ...
Shao-Ling He, Yuan Zhong, Wei-Wei He
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Understanding the City Size Wage Gap. [PDF]
Rev Econ Stud, 2012 In this paper, we decompose city size wage premia into various components. We base these decompositions on an estimated on-the-job search model that incorporates latent ability, search frictions, firm-worker match quality, human capital accumulation and endogenous migration between large, medium and small cities. Counterfactual simulations of the model
Baum-Snow N, Pavan R.
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Violence, city size and geographical isolation in African cities [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsDifferent types of violence are commonly linked with large urban areas, often presumed to scale superlinearly with population size (i.e., to be disproportionately higher in larger cities).
Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Ronaldo Menezes
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