Jordan Rappaport

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

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Kansas City, MO 64198

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1.

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: 15 May 2022
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Urban Growth Shadows

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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

Urban Growth Shadows

NBER Working Paper No. w28476
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 22 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
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 Growth Shadows

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15807
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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, Jason Brown, Maeve Maloney, Jordan Rappaport and Aaron Smalter Hall
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas CityFederal 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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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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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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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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The Size of U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Working Paper No. 21-02
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 22 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2022
Jordan Rappaport and McKenzie Humann
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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city size, regional labor markets, commuting

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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 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