Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis

We thank Fabian Trottner for many in-depth discussions. We also thank Milena Almagro, Pol Antràs, David Autor, Costas Arkolakis, Adrien Bilal, Gideon Bornstein, Laura Castillo-Martinez, Jonathan Dingel, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Gordon Hanson, J. Bradford Jensen, Tom Kemeny, Paolo Martellini, Christian Moser, Dávid Nagy, Michael Peters, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, Steve Redding, and Daniel Sturm for insightful comments. Any views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau’s Disclosure Review Board and Disclosure Avoidance Officers have reviewed this information product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and have approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release. This research was performed at a Federal Statistical Research Data Center under FSRDC Project Number 2193 (CBDRB-P2193-R8942, R9405, R9629, and R10013). Eckert and Walsh thank the International Economics Section at Princeton University where some of this work was completed. The present version of this paper supersedes “Skilled Scalable Services: The New Urban Bias in Economic Growth.” The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

• September 27, 2022