The Shadow of Cities: Size, Location and the Spatial Distribution of Population in Spain

Francisco Beltrán Tapia, Alfonso Dez-Minguela and Julio Martinez-Galarraga
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Alfonso Díez Minguela ()

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: Using a large data set on the population of Spanish municipalities between 1877 and 2001, this paper analyses how their initial size and the presence of neighbouring urban locations influence subsequent population growth and how these links have evolved over time. Our results show that initial size is negatively related to population growth, except in the 1960s and 1970s when this relationship becomes positive. Likewise, the presence of neighbouring urban locations limited local population growth in the late 19th century, a negative effect that persisted, but at a diminishing rate, until the second half of the 20th century. The influence of nearby cities became increasingly positive from then onwards, and especially so during the 1970s.

Keywords: Agglomeration economies; spatial interactions, regional growth, Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N93 N94 O18 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-11-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-his and nep-ure
Note: fjb38
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/pub ... pe-pdfs/cwpe1749.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cam:camdae:1749

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Jake Dyer ().