A comparison of city size distributions for China and India from 1950 to 2010

Economics Letters

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 290-295

  Luckstead, Jeff ^a   Devadoss, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

China; City size; General Pareto; India; Lognormal; Pareto

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903142534     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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