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While interest in social determinants of individual behavior has led to a rich theoretical literature and many efforts to measure these influences, a mature “social econometrics” has yet to emerge.… (More)
We review the accumulated knowledge on city size distributions and determinants of urban growth. This topic is of interest because of a number of key stylized facts, including notably Zipf’s law for… (More)
This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature to examine the use by different social groups of informal sources of information provided by friends, relatives, and acquaintances during… (More)
Abstract We use data for metro areas in the United States, from the US Census for 1900–1990, to test the validity of Zipf’s Law for cities. Previous investigations are restricted to regressions of… (More)
We establish empirically using three different definitions of US cities that the upper tail obeys a Pareto law and not a lognormal distribution. We emphasize estimation of a switching point between… (More)
The paper compares the dynamics of housing prices in fifteen OECD countries. The data reveal a remarkable degree of similarity across countries and suggest rich dynamics for the first-differenced… (More)
We test implications of economic geography models for location, size and growth of cities with US Census data for 1900 u 1990. Our tests involve non-parametric estimations of stochastic kernels for… (More)
This paper contributes to the growing literature that aims at identifying and measuring the impact of social context on individual economic behavior. We develop a model of housing structure demand… (More)