2007), “What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns,” Working Paper 13068, National Bureau of Economic Research
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author = {Glenn Ellison and Edward L. Glaeser and William Kerr and Keith Maskus and Debbie Smeaton For Comments},
title = {2007), “What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns,” Working Paper 13068, National Bureau of Economic Research},
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paper was conducted while the authors were Special Sworn Status researchers of the U.S. Census Bureau at the Boston Census Research Data Center (BRDC). Support for this research from NSF grant (ITR-0427889) is gratefully acknowledged. Research results and conclusions expressed are our own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Census Bureau or NSF. This paper has been Many industries are geographically concentrated. Many mechanisms that could account for such agglomeration have been proposed. We note that these theories make different predictions about which pairs of industries should be coagglomerated. We discuss the measurement of coagglomeration and use data from the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Research Database from 1972 to 1997 to compute pairwise coagglomeration measurements for U.S. manufacturing industries. Industry attributes are used to construct measures of the relevance of each of Marshall’s three theories of industry agglomeration to each industry pair: (1) agglomeration saves transport costs by proximity to input suppliers or final consumers, (2) agglomeration allows for labor market pooling, and (3) agglomeration facilitates intellectual spillovers. We assess the importance of the theories via regressions
