%0 Journal Article
%@ 0165-1765
%A Bee, Marco
%A Riccaboni, Massimo
%A Schiavo, Stefano
%D 2013
%F eprints:1652
%I Elsevier
%J Economics Letters
%K JEL classification: C14; D30; R12; R23  -   Keywords: City size distribution; Zipf distribution; Power-law; Lognormal distribution;      Maximum entropy
%N 2
%P 232 - 237
%T The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail 
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1652/
%V 120
%X 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.