title: Economic development, population and primacy.
abstract: "This paper investigates the relationship between economic development and primacy advanced by El-Shakhs, Mera and others, and finds no statistically significant link when obvious demographic influences are taken into account.  Three variables (national population, the urban population share, and a Latin American dummy) explain 40% of the variation in primacy in a sample of 116 countries (including 82 developing countries). Economic factors do not appear to be important.  Demography may be more influential than economics in attempts to explain primacy."
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005843:Geography; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012942:Social Sciences; D014505:Urban Population; D014507:Urbanization
keywords: Critique; Demographic Factors; Demography; Developing Countries; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Geographic Factors; Macroeconomic Factors; Population; Population Characteristics; Social Sciences; Spatial Distribution; Urban Population; Urban Spatial Distribution; Urbanization