The Rise of the Skilled City

Edward Glaeser and Albert Saiz

No 10191, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed effects and tests for reverse causality. We also find that skilled cities are growing because they are becoming more economically productive (relative to less skilled cities), not because these cities are becoming more attractive places to live. Most surprisingly, we find evidence suggesting that the skills-city growth connection occurs mainly in declining areas and occurs in large part because skilled cities are better at adapting to economic shocks. As in Schultz (1964), skills appear to permit adaptation.

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Date: 2003-12
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Published as Glaeser, Edward L. and Albert Saiz. “The Rise of the Skilled City." Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 5 (2004): 47-94.

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