The paper assesses the empirical validity of Zipfs Law for cities, using new data on 73 countries and two estimation methods, OLS and the Hill estimator.
Geography
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The paper assesses the empirical validity of Zipfs Law for cities, using new data on 73 countries and two estimation methods, OLS and the Hill estimator.