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Growth in a cross-section of cities: location, increasing returns or random growth?
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This article analyzes empirically the main existing theories on income and population city growth: increasing returns to scale, locational fundamentals and random growth. To do this we implement a threshold nonlinearity test that extends standard linear growth regression models to a dataset on urban, climatological and macroeconòmic variables on 1,175 U.S. cities. Our analysis reveals the existence of increasing returns when per-capita income levels are beyond $19; 264. Despite this, income growth is mostly explained by social and locational fundamentals. Population growth also exhibits two distinct equilibria determined by a threshold value of 116,300 inhabitants beyond which city population grows at a higher rate. Income and population growth do not go hand in hand, implying an optimal level of population beyond which income growth stagnates or deteriorates.
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GONZÁLEZ-VAL, Rafael, OLMO ARRIAGA, José luis del. Growth in a cross-section of cities: location, increasing returns or random growth?. _IEB Working Paper 2011/39_. [consulta: 21 de gener de 2026]. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/116590]