The Varieties of Regional Change

The Varieties of Regional Change. Edward Glaeser, Kristina Tobio, Giacomo Ponzetto, June 2010, Paper. "Many metropolitan areas have experienced extreme boom-bust cycles over the past century. Some places, like Detroit, grew enormously as industrial powerhouses and then declined, while other older cities, like Boston, seem quite resilient. Education does a reasonable job of explaining urban resilience. In this paper, we present a simple model where education increases the level of entrepreneurship. In this model, human capital spillovers occur at the city level because skilled workers produce more product varieties and thereby..."