relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1652/ title: The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail creator: Bee, Marco creator: Riccaboni, Massimo creator: Schiavo, Stefano subject: F001 United States local history subject: HB Economic Theory description: 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. publisher: Elsevier date: 2013-08 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Bee, Marco and Riccaboni, Massimo and Schiavo, Stefano The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail. Economics Letters, 120 (2). 232 - 237. ISSN 0165-1765 (2013) relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176513002139 relation: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.035