1 Cities in Developing Countries J. Vernon Henderson London School

Cities in Developing Countries

J. Vernon Henderson London School of Economics

UEA 2020 Lectures on Urban Economics

Papers most directly relevant to the lecture are noted with an asterisk (*)

On Urbanization Balboni, Clare. 2019. "In harm's way? Infrastructure investments and the persistence of coastal cities." https://www.dropbox.com/s/16p58q2ps18sscm/Clare%20Balboni%20Living%20on%20the%20edge.pdf Bryan, Gharad, and Melanie Morten. 2019. “The aggregate productivity effects of internal migration: Evidence from Indonesia.” Journal of Political Economy. 127(5), 2229-2268. * Bryan, Gharad, Edward Glaeser, and Nick Tsivanidis. 2019. “Cities in the Developing World.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 26390.

Caselli, Francesco, and Wilbur John Coleman II. 2001. “The U.S. Structural Transformation and Regional Convergence: A Reinterpretation.” Journal of Political Economy. 109(3), 584-616.

* Gollin, Douglas, David Lagakos, and Michael E. Waugh. 2013. “The agricultural productivity gap.” Quarterly Journal of Economics. 129(2), 939-993.

Gollin, Douglas, Martina Kirchberger, and David Lagakos. 2017. “In Search of a Spatial Equilibrium in the Developing World.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 23916. Gollin, Douglas, Remi Jedwab, and Dietrich Vollrath. 2016. “Urbanization with and without industrialization.” Journal of Economic Growth. 21(1), 35-70. Henderson, J. Vernon, and Sebastian Kriticos. 2018. “The development of the African system of cities.” Annual Review of Economics. 10, 287-314. Henderson, J. Vernon, Sebastian Kriticos, and Dzhamilya Nigmatulina. 2019. “Measuring urban economic density.” Journal of Urban Economics (forthcoming). * Henderson J. Vernon and Matthew Turner (2020) “Urbanization in the developing world: Too early or too slow?” Journal of Economic Perspectives (forthcoming) Lucas, Jr, Robert E. 2004. “Life earnings and rural-urban migration.” Journal of Political Economy. 112(S1), S29-S59. Tombe, Trevor, and Xiaodong Zhu. 2019. “Trade, migration, and productivity: A quantitative analysis of China.” American Economic Review, 109(5) 5, 1843-1872.

Additional references on systems of cities (not covered) Desmet, Klaus and J. Vernon Henderson. 2015. “The geography of development within countries”. in Gilles Duranton, J. Vernon Henderson, and William Strange (eds.) Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, Volume 5B. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1457-1517. Duranton, Gilles and Diego Puga. 2019. “Urban growth and its aggregate implications” https://diegopuga.org/papers/hcgrowth.pdf

Internal city development and slums (for unpublished papers, there may be more recent versions) Cavalcanti, T., D. Da Mata and M. Santos. 2019. “On the determinants of slum formation”. The Economic Journal. 129, 1971-1991. Combes, P-P, G. Duranton and L. Gobillon. 2019. “The Costs of Agglomeration: House and Land Prices in French Cities.” Review of Economic Studies. 86(4), 1556–1589. Gechter, M. and N. Tsivanidis, 2020. “Spatial Spillovers from Urban Renewal: Evidence from the Mumbai Mills Redevelopment.” http://www.personal.psu.edu/mdg5396/MumbaiMills.pdf * Harari, M and M. Wong. 2019. “Slum Upgrading and Long-run Urban Development: Evidence from Indonesia.” http://real-faculty.wharton.upenn.edu/harari/wp- content/uploads/~harari/HarariWong_Oct2019.pdf * Henderson J. V., T. Regan and A. J. Venables. 2020. “ Building the city: From slums to the modern metropolis” Review of Economic Studies, (forthcoming) Marx, B., T. Stoker and T. Suri. 2013. “The Economics of Slums in the Developing World.” Journal of Economic Perspectives. 27, 187-210. * Michaels, G., A. Dahlstrand-Rudin, D. Nigmatulina, F. Rauch, and T. Regan. 2019. “Planning Ahead for Better Neighbourhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania.” http://personal.lse.ac.uk/REGANT1/papers/Michaels_etal_unp2019.pdf

Additional references: transportation within cities (not covered)

Akbar,P., V. Couture, G. Duranton, and A. Storeygard. 2018. “Mobility and congestion in urban India” http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/811261533850020988/pdf/WPS8546.pdf Baum-Snow, N., L. Brandt, J.V. Henderson, M. Turner, and Q. Zhang. 2017. “Roads, Railways and Decentralization of Chinese Cities.” Review of Economics and Statistics. 99, 435-448. Tsivanidis, N. 2019. “The Aggregate and Distributional Effects of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio” https://www.nicktsivanidis.com/s/TsivanidisTransMilenio_62019.pdf