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If Cities are So Great, Why are People Leaving? A Response to Vining and Kontuly

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  • T D Tregarthen

    (Department of Economics, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80907, USA)

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Recent declines in the populations of some major metropolitan regions may not be inconsistent with the notion of agglomeration economies. An analysis of utility maximizing behavior in the choice of city size suggests that an increase in such economies may be the cause of outmigration from large cities, and that, in any event, increases in incomes across all cities should, ceteris paribus , induce such outmigration.

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  • T D Tregarthen, 1977. "If Cities are So Great, Why are People Leaving? A Response to Vining and Kontuly," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 9(12), pages 1421-1422, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:9:y:1977:i:12:p:1421-1422
    DOI: 10.1068/a091421
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