Course Evaluation and First Lecture
Section outline
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You can find below the power point explaining how this course is evaluated (file "eval").
The data analysis asked on French cities should replicate the study of Jordan Rappaport “The Faster Growth of Larger, Less Crowded Locations”.
The lecture on Rappaport is available here.
Some data
- French income at the local level (IRIS) are available at INSEE, database Filosofi:
- Revenus localisés sociaux et fiscaux / dispositif FiLoSoFi. https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/revenus-localises-sociaux-et-fiscaux-dispositif-filosofi/
- Recent data on the population of French cities (1968-2015) (Source: INSEE) can be dowloaded here while the historical data (1800-1925) are available at: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2591293?sommaire=2591397.
- Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL)