But Ed Glaeser, an economist, argues that clusters of clever workers themselves enhance productivity.
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Rather than blaming culture or taxes, Messrs Alesina, Glaeser and Sacerdote instead credit trade unions.
Messrs Alesina, Glaeser and Sacerdote think this principle might help to explain why Europeans work so much less than Americans.
For the 1996-2006 cycle in America Messrs Glaeser, Gyourko and Saiz find that places with more developable land did have shorter booms.
Just check out Sutter's post on digging up sources and Smith and Glaeser's post on fact-checking, and have your questions ready.
Where do the ideas of influential urbanists like Richard Florida, Edward Glaeser, Steward Brand and Geoffrey West fit in?
In another game of trust, Edward Glaeser of Harvard University and his collaborators paired off players, some of whom knew each other in real life.
In his comment on the Boeing study, Ed Glaeser explains that city subsidies to lure a company will often exceed the tax revenues companies bring.
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In their paper Consumer City, Ed Glaeser, Jed Kolko, and Albert Saiz argue that cities lost their manufacturing bases when they lost the transportation cost advantage.
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In an excellent, comprehensive paper on the subject, Ed Glaeser and his compatriats trace the level of metropolitan segregation alongside changes in housing prices by race.
People are fleeing the cold: there is a strong correlation between the average temperature in January and population growth, notes Edward Glaeser, a professor of economics at Harvard University.
Inspired by the work of pioneering urban economist Edward Glaeser, author of Triumph of the City (Penguin), Hsieh has become intensely interested and invested in downtown Las Vegas.
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Most of this growth occurred in the suburbs rather than the inner cities, Mr Glaeser adds, with the more prosperous metropolitan areas and those with better educated residents growing especially fast.
In a 2009 paper Mr Glaeser and Matthew Resseger of Harvard University find that in highly skilled areas, city size explains 45% of the variation in worker productivity (it has almost no effect in underskilled cities).
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