Jordan Rappaport

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Economist

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Kansas City, MO 64198

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Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?

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Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 09 Aug 2000
Edward L. Glaeser, Matthew E. Kahn and Jordan Rappaport
Harvard University - Department of Economics, University of Southern California and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Why Do the Poor Live in Cities?

NBER Working Paper No. w7636
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 21 May 2000 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2013
Edward L. Glaeser, Matthew E. Kahn and Jordan Rappaport
Harvard University - Department of Economics, University of Southern California and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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How Does Openness to Capital Flows Affect Growth?

FRB of Kansas City Research Working Paper No. 00-11
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 19 Jun 2001
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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General Aggregative Models, Economic Growth of Open Economies, One, Two, and Multi-Sector Growth in Models

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Local Growth Empirics

CID Working Paper No. 23
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 13 Nov 2001
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Economic Growth, Factor Mobility, Migration, Compensating Differentials, Geography, Local Government

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Millennials, Baby Boomers, and Rebounding Multifamily Home Construction

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Working Paper
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 31 Jul 2015
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Housing Demand, Residential Construction, Baby Boom, Millennials

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Moving to Nice Weather

FRB of Kansas City Working Paper No. 03-07
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 17 May 2004
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Economic Growth, Population Density, Migration, Quality of Life

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Is the Speed of Convergence Constant?

FRB of Kansas City Research Working Paper No. 00-10
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Jun 2001
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Economic Growth, Income Convergence, Cross-Country Growth Empirics

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Moving to High Quality of Life

FRB of Kansas City Working Paper No. 07-02
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Apr 2007
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Migration, consumption amenities, quality of life, productivity, urban agglomeration

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Productivity, Congested Commuting, and Metro Size

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Working Paper No. RWP 16-03
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 04 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2016
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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City Size, Commuting, Congestion, Land Use, Time Use, Self-Driving Cars

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How Does Labor Mobility Affect Income Convergence?

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How Does Labor Mobility Affect Income Convergence?

FRB of Kansas City Working Paper No. 99-12
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 Feb 2000
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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How Does Labor Mobility Affect Income Convergence?

Posted: 12 Apr 2005
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

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Economic Growth, Income Convergence, Factor Mobility, Migration

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A Bottleneck Capital Model of Development

FRB of Kansas City Working Paper No. 01-10
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 May 2004
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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General Aggregative Models, One, Two, Multisector Growth Models

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The Settlement of the United States, 1800 to 2000: The Long Transition Towards Gibrat's Law

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The Settlement of the United States, 1800 to 2000: The Long Transition Towards Gibrat's Law

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Working Paper No. RWP 13-02
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2015
Klaus Desmet and Jordan Rappaport
Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Gibrats Law, Zipfs Law, Local Growth, Convegence, Divergence

The Settlement of the United States, 1800 to 2000: The Long Transition Towards Gibrat's Law

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9353
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Feb 2013
Klaus Desmet and Jordan Rappaport
Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Gibrat's law, growth across space, long-term development, settlement of US, spatial distribution of population

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Why are Population Flows so Persistent?

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Why are Population Flows so Persistent?

FRB of Kansas City Working Paper No. 99-13
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 03 Feb 2000
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Why Are Population Flows So Persistent?

Posted: 14 Apr 2005
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

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"A Simple Model of City Crowdedness"

FRB of Kansas City Working Paper No. RWP 04-12
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Jan 2005
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Population density, productivity, quality-of-life, compensating differentials, economic growth

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The Demographic Transition from Single-Family to Multifamily Housing

Economic Review, 4th Quarter 2013
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Jan 2014
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Housing Demand, Residential Construction, Demographics, Baby Boom

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Monocentric City Redux

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Working Paper No. 14-09
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Nov 2014
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Urban Land Use, Commuting, Leisure, Value of Time

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Consumption Amenities and City Crowdedness

FRB of Kansas City Working Paper No. 06-10
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Aug 2006
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Population Density, Consumption Amenities, Quality of Life, Productivity, Urban Agglomeration

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A Productivity Model of City Crowdedness

FRB of Kansas City Working Paper No. 06-06
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Jun 2006
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Population Density, Productivity, Urban Agglomeration

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Extremist Funding, Centrist Voters, and Candidate Divergence

Santa Fe Institute Working Paper No. 97-06-059
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Jul 2001
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Spatial Voting Models, Campaign Contributions, Candidate Divergence, Computational Models

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A Quantitative System of Monocentric Metros

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Working Paper No. 14-03
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 05 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2015
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Monocentric City, Urban Systems, Commuting Congestion, Value of Time

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How Centralized is U.S. Metropolitan Employment?

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Working Paper No. RWP 17-16
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 04 Dec 2017
Jason Brown, Maeve Maloney, Jordan Rappaport and Aaron Smalter Hall
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Syracuse University, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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central business districts, employment density, metropolitan land use

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Crowdedness, Centralized Employment, and Multifamily Home Construction

Economic Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Apr 2017
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Home Construction, Centralized Employment, Urban Amenities

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The Faster Growth of Larger, Less Crowded Locations

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review (2018)
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jan 2019
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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Local Growth, Population, Density

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Urban Growth Shadows

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Nov 2019
David Cuberes, Klaus Desmet and Jordan Rappaport
University of Sheffield, Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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urban shadows, agglomeration economies, spatial economics, urban systems, city growth, United States, 1840-2017

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The Increasing Importance of Quality of Life

Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 9, Issue 6, pp. 779-804, 2009
Posted: 02 Nov 2009
Jordan Rappaport
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

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migration, consumption amenities, quality of life, productivity, urban agglomeration

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The United States as a Coastal Nation

Posted: 27 May 2003
Jordan Rappaport and Jeffrey D. Sachs
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and Columbia University - Columbia Earth Institute

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Economic Growth, Population Density, Productivity, Quality of Life