Three empirical essays on the historical development of cities
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores several topics related to the historical development of cities. In the three chapters, I investigate 1) labor market consequences of urban displacement, 2) how land supply constraint impedes long-run urban growth, and 3) the phenomenon of urban mortality penalty in early modern Europe. The first chapter is titled "Does Slum Demolition Affect the Economic Outcomes of the Displaced? Evidence from Victorian England". I use a research design that compares displaced slum residents and comparable non-displaced ones living on the same street at baseline. I combine individual-level census data and detailed government archival records on slum demolition to show that displaced slum residents experienced labor market disruptions up to 10 years after eviction. The second chapter is titled "Does Land Use Restriction Impede Long-run Urban Development? Evidence from the Ejido System in Mexico". I find that a historical communal land system that outlawed the conversion of agricultural land for non-agricultural use impeded urban expansion in 20th century Mexico. Using a matched difference-in-difference design, I find cities that became surrounded by ejido land grew 10 percent slower in the second half of the 20th century. The third chapter is titled "Documenting the Urban Mortality Penalty in Early Modern Europe: Evidence from Migrants". I use a crowdsourced genealogy dataset that records the longevity and the migration history of millions of individuals in Europe. I find that, comparing between migrants born in the same area, those who moved to urban areas lived on average 1.6 years shorter than migrants who moved to rural areas.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | He, Yiming |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Abramitzky, Ran |
| Degree supervisor | Dupas, Pascaline |
| Thesis advisor | Abramitzky, Ran |
| Thesis advisor | Dupas, Pascaline |
| Thesis advisor | Fetter, Daniel |
| Thesis advisor | Morten, Melanie |
| Degree committee member | Fetter, Daniel |
| Degree committee member | Morten, Melanie |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Yiming He. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/mr502pp4418 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Yiming He
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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