TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Combes, Pierre-Philippe
AU  - Duranton, Gilles
AU  - Gobillon, Laurent
        TI  - The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
        PY  - 2012/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7027
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7027
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - urban costs
KW  - land prices
KW  - land use
KW  - agglomeration
        ER  -