TY  - JOUR
EP  -  237
VL  - 120
PB  - Elsevier
A1  - Bee, Marco
A1  - Riccaboni, Massimo
A1  - Schiavo, Stefano
SP  - 232 
TI  - The size distribution of US cities: Not Pareto, even in the tail 
ID  - eprints1652
AV  - none
KW  - JEL classification: C14; D30; R12; R23  -   Keywords: City size distribution; Zipf distribution; Power-law; Lognormal distribution;
    Maximum entropy
IS  - 2
UR  - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176513002139
SN  - 0165-1765
Y1  - 2013/08//
N2  - 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. 
JF  - Economics Letters
ER  -