Agglomeration Economics / edited by Edward L. Glaeser.

Acknowledgments, ix -- Introduction / Edward L. Glaeser, 1 -- 1. Estimating agglomeration economies with history, geology, and worker effects / Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, and Sebastien Roux, 15 -- 2. Dispersion in house price and income growth across markets: facts and theories / Joseph Gyourko, Christopher Mayer, and Todd Sinai, 67 -- 3. Cities as six-by-six-mile squares: Zipf's Law? / Thomas J. Holmes and Sanghoon Lee, 105 -- 4. Labor pooling as a source of agglomeration: an empirical investigation / Henry G. Overman and Diego Puga, 133 -- 5. Urbanization, agglomeration, and conglomerations of service industries / Jed Kolko, 151 -- 6. Who benefits whom in the neighborhood? demographics and retail product geography / Joel Waldfogel, 181 -- 7. Understanding agglomerations in health care / Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra, 211 -- 8. The agglomeration of U.S. ethnic inventors / William R. Kerr, 237 -- 9. Small establishments/big effects: agglomeration, industrial organization, and entrepreneurship / Stuart S. Rosenthal and William C. Strange, 277 -- 10. Did the death of distance hurt Detroit and help New York? / Edward L. Glaeser and Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto, 303 -- 11. New evidence on trends in the cost of urban agglomeration / Matthew E. Kahn, 339 -- Contributors, 355 -- Author index, 357 -- Subject index, 361.