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    • Crowdsourcing City Government: Using Tournaments to Improve Inspection Accuracy 

      Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Hillis, Andrew Blair; Kominers, Scott Duke; Luca, Michael (American Economic Association, 2016)
      The proliferation of big data makes it possible to better target city services like hygiene inspections, but city governments rarely have the in-house talent needed for developing prediction algorithms. Cities could hire ...
    • Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines 

      Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William Robert (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press), 2014-05-13)
      Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils ...