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American Economic Review: Insights:

Prime locations

We develop a method for delineating prime locations - ultradense clusters of economic activity- within cities and apply it to comprehensive establishment data covering all US metropolitan areas. We further use big data t...Read more...

CEP discussion paper

Prime locations

We harness big data to detect prime locations - large clusters of knowledge-based tradable services - in 125 global cities and track changes in the within-city geography of prime service jobs over a century. Historically...Read more...