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Researchers at University of Utrecht publish new data on life sciences
May 27th, 2008
"The evolution of city growth is usually studied for relatively short time periods. The rise and decline of cities is, however, typically a process that takes many decades or even centuries," researchers in Netherlands report. "In this article we study the evolution of Italian cities over the period 1300-1861. Using an existing data set, we perform panel estimations where the development of city size and urban patterns can be explained by various geographical, institutional and other determinants of city size for the period under consideration. Although large shocks such as the plague epidemics are clearly visible in the data, our baseline estimation results show that...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-05-27)
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