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Sprouting Cities: How Rural America Industrialized

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  • Fabian Eckert
  • John Juneau
  • Michael Peters

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We study the joint process of urbanization and industrialization in the US economy between 1880 and 1940. We show that only a small share of aggregate industrialization is accounted for by the relocation of workers from remote rural areas to industrial hubs like Chicago or New York City. Instead, most sectoral shifts occurred within rural counties, dramatically transforming their sectoral structure. Most industrialization within counties occurred through the emergence of new "factory" cities with notably higher manufacturing shares rather than the expansion of incumbent cities. In contrast, today's shift towards services seems to benefit large incumbent cities the most.

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  • Fabian Eckert & John Juneau & Michael Peters, 2023. "Sprouting Cities: How Rural America Industrialized," NBER Working Papers 30874, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30874
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    1. Andr s G mez-Lobo & Daniel Oviedo, 2023. "Spatial Inequalities in Latin America: Mapping Aggregate to Micro-Level Disparities," LIS Working papers 869, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
    2. Gómez-Lobo, Andrés & Oviedo, Daniel, 2023. "Spatial inequalities in Latin America: mapping aggregate to micro-level disparities," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 120691, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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    • E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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