We use the synthetic control method to analyze the effect of face masks on the spread of
COVID-19 in Germany. Our identification approach exploits regional variation in the point in …

This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions
in urban economics. This area of research has seen rapid growth in the past decade, thanks …

This paper investigates the local labor market impact of a UK relocation initiative–the 2004
Lyons Review. The review resulted in the dispersal of about 25,000 civil service jobs out of …

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many changes to various aspects of the lives of
employees in the world, especially Indonesia. The economic aspect is considered to be one …

This paper quantifies the impact of public employment on local labor markets in the long-run.
We adopt two quantitative approaches and apply them to the case of Spanish cities. In the …

How do radical reforms shape economic development over time? In 1790, the French
Constituent Assembly overhauled the kingdom's organization to establish new local capitals …

I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German
Local Population Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946 …

We exploit a series of public-sector entity relocations in South Korea as an exogenous
source of variation in public sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier …

We study how political hierarchy shapes regional development in China, using variations
driven by regime changes during the 1000–2000 CE period. We find that changes in the …

In this article, we make use of large-scale municipal border changes in Germany to provide
the first evidence on the effect of local border changes on the distribution of activity in space …