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作者

Sara Mitchell

来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.112,P.16-32

语言

英文

关键字

Geographic concentration;Cities;Mobility;Productivity;Urban history;British literature;D24;J24;J61;N90;R11;Z11

作者单位

TU Dortmund, Germany;TU Dortmund, Germany

摘要

This paper utilises a unique, purpose-built panel dataset on prominent authors in the UK and Ireland born 1700–1925 to estimate the productivity gains associated with agglomeration of an industry with few capital requirements and no apparent need to cluster geographically. I find the average author experiences productivity gains of 11.94% per annum when residing in London, the only major literary cluster – a gain not associated with living in any of the minor literary clusters. I find evidence of negative selection with respect to productivity, indicating the results are not driven by the self-selection of highly productive authors to London. I find heterogeneity of returns to living in London by birth cohort and Impact Index quartile (a measure of author quality) and that the cohorts who receive the greatest gains from locating in London are those for which there is the strongest evidence of negative selection with respect to productivity.