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Gibrat's law for cities: a standalone construct

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Urban economics

the regularity that city population growth rates are independent of city size, which yields a lognormal size distribution when all places are counted.

In urban economics, Gibrat's law for cities refers to the regularity that city population growth rates are independent of city size, which yields a lognormal size distribution when all places are counted. This meaning comes from Eeckhout (2004) in American Economic Review.[1]

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References

Eeckhout, J. (2004). Gibrat's Law for (All) Cities. American Economic Review, 94(5), 1429-1451. https://doi.org/10.1257/0002828043052303

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