da Mata, DanielDeichmann, UweHenderson, J. VernonLall, Somik V.Wang, Hyoung Gun2012-06-182012-06-182005-09https://hdl.handle.net/10986/8260The authors examine the determinants of Brazilian city growth between 1970 and 2000. They consider a model of a city that combines aspects of standard urban economics and the new economic geography literatures. For the empirical analysis, the authors construct a dataset of 123 Brazilian agglomerations and estimate aspects of the demand and supply side, as well as a reduced form specification that describes city sizes and their growth. Their main findings are that increases in rural population supply, improvements in interregional transport connectivity, and education attainment of the labor force have strong impacts on city growth. They also find that local crime and violence, measured by homicide rates, impinge on growth. In contrast, a higher share of private sector industrial capital in the local economy stimulates growth. Using the residuals from the growth estimation, the authors also find that cities that better administer local land use and zoning laws have higher growth. Finally, their policy simulations show that diverting transport investments from large cities toward secondary cities does not provide significant gains in terms of national urban performance.CC BY 3.0 IGOAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITYAUTOCOVARIANCEAUTONOMYBIG CITIESCAPITAL ACCUMULATIONCAPITAL CITIESCAPITAL STOCKCAPITALSCITIESCITY POLICIESCITY POPULATIONCITY PRODUCTIVITYCITY SIZECITY TRANSPORTCOMPETITIVENESSCROSS COUNTRYDEBTDECENTRALIZATIONDECISION MAKINGDEMAND CURVEDETERMINANTS OF GROWTHDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPMENT RESEARCHDYNAMIC ADJUSTMENTECONOMETRICSECONOMIC ACTIVITIESECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC GEOGRAPHYECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC STRUCTUREECONOMIC STUDIESEDUCATION LEVELEDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENTELASTICITYERROR TERMSESTIMATED COEFFICIENTESTIMATION RESULTSEXTERNALITYGDPGOVERNMENT EXPENDITUREGOVERNMENT EXPENDITURESGROWTH EQUATIONGROWTH LITERATUREGROWTH MODELSGROWTH RATEGROWTH RATESGROWTH RESIDUALSGROWTH RESULTSHOUSINGHUMAN CAPITALINCOMEINCOME DISTRIBUTIONINCOME GROWTHINCOME PER CAPITAINEFFICIENCYINFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTLABOR FORCELABOR MARKETLABOR MARKETSLABOR SUPPLYLAND USELARGE CITIESLAWSLOCAL GOVERNMENTLOCAL GOVERNMENTSLONG RUNMACROECONOMICSMARGINAL PRODUCTIVITYMEAN VALUEMETROPOLITAN AREASMIGRATIONMONETARY ECONOMICSMONOPOLISTIC COMPETITIONMUNICIPALITIESNASH EQUILIBRIUMNATIONAL OUTPUTNEGATIVE EFFECTNEGATIVE EXTERNALITIESNEGATIVE IMPACTNET OUTPUTPOLICY CIRCLESPOLICY DEBATEPOLICY INTERVENTIONSPOLICY MAKERSPOLICY RESEARCHPRIVATIZATIONPRODUCTIVITYPRODUCTIVITY GROWTHPUBLIC INVESTMENTPUBLIC SECTORPUBLIC SERVICESREAL INCOMESREDUCED FORM EQUATIONRELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONRURAL AREASSCALE EFFECTSSECONDARY CITIESSERVICE DELIVERYSIGNIFICANT REDUCTIONSKILLED WORKERSSTANDARD DEVIATIONSTATE ENTERPRISESSUPPLY CURVESUPPLY CURVESTELECOMMUNICATIONSTRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTUREUNEMPLOYMENTURBAN AGGLOMERATIONURBAN AGGLOMERATIONSURBAN AREASURBAN COMPETITIVENESSURBAN ECONOMICSURBAN GROWTHURBAN LIVINGURBAN POPULATIONURBAN STRATEGYURBANIZATIONUTILITIESUTILITY FUNCTIONWAGE RATESWAGESWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-3723