The shadow of cities: size, location and the spatial distribution of population

Francisco Beltrán Tapia, Alfonso Díez-Minguela () and Julio Martinez-Galarraga
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Alfonso Díez-Minguela: Universitat de València
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The Annals of Regional Science, 2021, vol. 66, issue 3, No 9, 729-753

Abstract: Abstract Using a large dataset 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 nineteenth century, a negative effect that persisted, but at a diminishing rate, until the second half of the twentieth century. The influence of nearby cities became increasingly positive from then onwards, and especially so during the 1970s.

JEL-codes: N93 N94 O18 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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