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Seeing Growth from Space: Urban Income Differentials, Migration, and Economic Progress in Cross-Country Analysis

dc.contributor.advisorMian, Atif Rehman
dc.contributor.authorCross, James M.
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-29T16:27:45Z
dc.date.available2025-07-29T16:27:45Z
dc.date.issued2025-04-12
dc.description.abstractUrbanization and economic growth have historically been almost synonymous. But over the last 30 years, dramatic migration to cities in many emerging economies has been associated with only modest increases in income level. I postulate that the type of urbanization matters. Using night-time-light data to compare income levels across different types of cities, I find that countries with high income differentials between their largest cities and the rest of the country tend (all else equal) to grow slowly. The evidence suggests that when large cities are much richer relative to the rest of the country, migration occurs largely to periurban districts around them. Because these peri-urban districts have poor infrastructure, greater urbanization is not associated with the economic dynamism that cities traditionally generate.
dc.identifier.urihttps://theses-dissertations.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp0100000345v
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.titleSeeing Growth from Space: Urban Income Differentials, Migration, and Economic Progress in Cross-Country Analysis
dc.typePrinceton University Senior Theses
dspace.entity.typePublication
dspace.workflow.startDateTime2025-04-12T18:29:21.614Z
pu.contributor.authorid920245739
pu.date.classyear2025
pu.departmentEconomics
pu.minorHistory

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