%0 Report
        %A Combes, Pierre-Philippe
%A Duranton, Gilles
%A Gobillon, Laurent
        %T The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
        %D 2012
        %8 2012 Nov
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 7027
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7027
        %X We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent interest such as a distance gradient for land prices and the elasticity of unit land prices with respect to city population. For the latter, our preferred estimate is 0.72.
        %K urban costs
%K land prices
%K land use
%K agglomeration