E
Edward L. Glaeser
Researcher at Harvard University
Publications - 558
Citations - 90340
Edward L. Glaeser is an academic researcher from Harvard University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Urban economics. The author has an hindex of 137, co-authored 550 publications receiving 83601 citations. Previous affiliations of Edward L. Glaeser include Dartmouth College & Hoover Institution.
Papers
More filters
Posted Content
Growth in Cities
Edward L. Glaeser,Edward L. Glaeser,Edward L. Glaeser,Hedi Kallal,Jose A. Scheinkman,Jose A. Scheinkman,Jose A. Scheinkman,Andrei Shleifer,Andrei Shleifer +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a new data set on the growth of large industries in 170 U.S. cities between 1956 and 1987 and found that local competition and urban variety, but not regional specialization, encourage employment growth in industries.
Journal ArticleDOI
Growth in Cities
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a new data set on the growth of large industries in 170 U.S. cities between 1956 and 1987 and found that local competition and urban variety, but not regional specialization, encourage employment growth in industries.
Journal ArticleDOI
Do Institutions Cause Growth
TL;DR: This article found that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish the proposition that institutions cause growth are constructed to be conceptually unsuitable for that purpose and also found that some of the instrumental variable techniques used in the literature are flawed.
Posted Content
Crime and Social Interactions
Edward L. Glaeser,Bruce Sacerdote,Bruce Sacerdote,Jose A. Scheinkman,Jose A. Scheinkman,Jose A. Scheinkman +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model where social interactions create enough covariance across individuals to explain the high cross-city variance of crime rates, and compare the degree of social interaction across crimes, across geographic 1 units and across time.
Posted Content
Geographic Concentration in U.S. Manufacturing Industries: A Dartboard Approach
Glenn Ellison,Edward L. Glaeser +1 more
TL;DR: The authors discusses the prevalence of Silicon Valley-style localizations of individual manufacturing industries in the United States Several models in which firms choose locations by throwing darts at a map are used to test whether the degree of localization is greater than would be expected to arise randomly and to motivate a new index of geographic concentration.