Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas?

Why Are Power Couples Increasingly Concentrated in Large Metropolitan Areas?

*We would like to thank three anonymous referees, Emek Basker, Scott Drewianka and Courtney Lafountain for their helpful comments and suggestions and Michael Orlando for programming assistance. Pollak thanks the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for their support. The usual disclaimer applies. ABSTRACT Using census data, Costa and Kahn (QJE, 2000) find that power couples-couples in ...

How Metropolitan Areas Are Failing America’s Children

Human Capital in Large Metropolitan Areas in the United States

The evidence indicates that human capital is an increasingly important determinant of where firms and households locate in the United States. Further, large metropolitan areas have been shown to have an advantage in attracting and producing highly skilled workers. The research in this study provides new information on the relationship between specific large metropolitan areas and educational at...

Why Eddy Momentum Fluxes are Concentrated in the Upper Troposphere

The extratropical eddy momentum flux (EMF) is controlled by generation, propagation, and dissipation of large-scale eddies and is concentrated in Earth’s upper troposphere. An idealized GCM is used to investigate how this EMF structure arises. In simulations in which the poles are heated more strongly than the equator, EMF is concentrated near the surface, demonstrating that surface drag genera...

GIS - based Flood Risk Analysis Across Large Metropolitan Areas

This paper examines the effects of urbanization on the flood hazard in semi-arid/arid southern California using traditional hydrograph, frequency-magnitude and statistical analysis augmented with GIS-based variable parameterizations and visualizations. It was found that the peak flood discharges were significantly increased in urban watersheds in conjunction with increasing mean baseflow in the...