@article{eprints1652,
            year = {2013},
           pages = {232 -- 237},
       publisher = {Elsevier},
          volume = {120},
           month = {August},
         journal = {Economics Letters},
           title = {The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail },
          author = {Marco Bee and Massimo Riccaboni and Stefano Schiavo},
          number = {2},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1652/},
        abstract = {Abstract We question the claim that the largest \{US\} cities are Pareto distributed. We show that results of multiple tests on real data are similar to those obtained when the true distribution is lognormal, and largely depend on sample sizes. },
        keywords = {JEL classification: C14; D30; R12; R23  -   Keywords: City size distribution; Zipf distribution; Power-law; Lognormal distribution;
    Maximum entropy}
}