The Comparative Advantage of Cities

Thanks to Arnaud Costinot, Gilles Duranton, Vernon Henderson, Corinne Low, Joan Monras, Gianmarco Ottaviano, Keeyoung Rhee, John Romalis, Bernard Salanié, Kurt Schmidheiny, Will Strange, Bruno Strulovici, Daniel Sturm, Matt Turner, Jonathan Vogel, and seminar audiences at Barcelona GSE, Berkeley, CURE, NBER ITI, NBER URB, New York Fed, NYU Stern, Penn State, Philadelphia Fed, Princeton IES Summer Workshop, UCLA, and the Urban Economics Association for helpful comments and suggestions. We thank Yuxiao Huang and especially Antonio Miscio for research assistance. Dingel thanks the Institute for Humane Studies, the Program for Economic Research at Columbia University, and the Kathryn and Grant Swick Faculty Research Fund at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business for financial support. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.