Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities
Has this study been replicated?
The atlas records 1 reproduction of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 mixed.
Reproductions
- Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities: Comment, Levy (2009). American Economic Review. Outcome recorded: computation not checked, robustness challenges.
Robustness: for the top 0.6 percent of the largest cities, the empirical distribution is dramatically different from the lognormal, and follows a power law.
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Cite this record
Eeckhout, J. (2004). Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities. American Economic Review, 94(5), 1429–1451. https://doi.org/10.1257/0002828043052303
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