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Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics, FAS
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines. Edward L. Glaeser, William R. Kerr, May 2015, Paper. "We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant scale economies and that those big firms subsequently damped entrepreneurship across several generations. Proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with reduced..." Link