households. Urban policy often focusses on reducing segregation through physical measures in cities, such as demolishing houses …Income inequality is increasing in European cities and this rising inequality has a spatial footprint in cities and … neighbourhoods. Poor and rich people are increasingly living separated and this can threaten the social sustainability of cities. Low …

- innovation and trade - are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of … concentration and dominance, and the multilateral trade system had been buckling under pressure from a return to mercantilist ideas … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for …

colonialism; geographical factors such as rainfall and distance from international markets; economic factors such competition from … the negative consequences of adverse geography, improve trade facilitation to exploit learning-by-exporting from intra …-African trade, and facilitate urbanization. …

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans. …

's breastfeeding intentions and practices. We use panel data of 2003-2004 on families in Amsterdam at early pregnancy and at the time …

future and which are traded and priced in a competitive market. We use a unique land lease-contract data set for Amsterdam …

Theory points to a potential trade-off between two main school assignment mechanisms; Boston and Deferred Acceptance … in their top-n schools, for any n, than Boston and results in higher average welfare. We find a trade-off between DA …

in Amsterdam with a unique dataset. We use an hedonic-market approach to show that general attitudes towards Muslim …

Amsterdam as an instrumental variable to dialect-speaking, we find that male workers who speak a dialect earn 11.6% less while …