In the literature on measured wage inequality, only one recent study, by Glaeser and Mare′ (2001), has focused on the enormous wage gap between urban and non-urban workers in the United States. In the present paper, I replicate and extend Glaeser and Mare′’s original empirical work, and I present a new interpretation of the evidence based on my re-estimation. Contrary to Glaeser and Mare′’s the...

BACKGROUND: Limited information is available about teenage pregnancy and childbearing in rural areas, even though approximately 20 percent of the nation's youth live in rural areas. Identifying whether there are differences in the teenage birth rate (TBR) across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas is important, because these differences may reflect modifiable ecological-level influences such...

Traditional urban theories of community crime development increasingly are being adapted and evaluated for their relevance to the crime problems of smaller and less urban settings. Most notable of these have been social disorganization theory and civic community theory. This paper compares these two major theoretical frameworks for explaining community-level variations in crime, using county-le...

Less than 20 percent of all people work in nonmetropolitan areas in the United States, and their average hourly wage is over $3 less than that of people in metropolitan areas. However, by occupation, the concentration of workers and their wages in nonmetropolitan areas vary considerably from the national averages. Overall average salaries are higher in metropolitan areas than in nonmetropolitan...

This study explores the potential effectiveness of metropolitan land cover change as a climate change adaptation strategy for managing rising temperatures in a large and rapidly warming metropolitan region of the United States. Through the integration of a mesoscale meteorological model with estimated land cover data for the Atlanta, Georgia region in 2010, this study quantifies the influence o...

Shinji Higuchi1, Masaki Takagi1, 2, Satoshi Shimomura3, Gen Nishimura4, and Yukihiro Hasegawa1, 2 1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan 2Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 3Department of Orthopedics, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan 4Department of Radiology, Tokyo ...

The standard method of identifying subcenters is due to Giuliano and Small. While simple, robust and easy to apply, because it uses absolute employment density and employment cutoffs, it identifies “too few” subcenters at the metropolitan periphery. This paper presents a straightforward modification to this method aimed at remedying this weakness. The modification entails using cutoffs that dec...