A paper from Edward L. Glaeser and Albert Saiz

The authors claim that ‘For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed effects and tests for reverse causality.

The Second International Conference on the Process of Innovation and Learning in Dynamic City-Regions was held in Bangalore, India, 13-15 July 2005. Bangalore is the capital of Karnataka, a booming city, centre of the IT industry and usually referred as the ‘Silicon Valley’ of India.