TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH AND AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES IN MANUFACTURING, 1959‐73*
研究了1959-1973年美国各州制造业生产率增长的驱动因素，重点分析城市化特征（如城市空间布局和标准城市化指标）对生产率增长的影响，发现规模经济和技术进步与城市化相关但效应相互抵消，城市化与全要素生产率增长无显著关系。
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the determinants of productivity growth in the manufacturing sector of states over the period 1959‐1973. Special emphasis is placed on isolating the effects of a state's urbanization characteristics on productivity growth. Urbanization characteristics considered include the spatial arrangement of cities along with the standard measures of urbanization. The results indicate that while both scale economies and technical change are related to urbanization characteristics the effects tend to be offsetting; no relationship is found between urbanization and overall productivity growth as measured by total factor productivity growth.