size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of …

and households and the aggregate economy of Germany. We adopt alternative micro-foundations for agglomeration economies … Germany's labor markets, housing rents, and household travel-to-work data, to estimate the population elasticities of urban … benefits and costs. We are the first to establish elasticities for urban costs for Germany, an estimated elasticity of …

battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants …, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports of used batteries to Mexico rose markedly. In Mexico, production … increased at battery-recycling plants, relative to comparable industries, and birth outcomes deteriorated within two miles of …

In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977 …

unchanged, and equalize within-city assortative matching geographical wage inequality in Germany would decrease significantly …-city assortative matching observed between 1985 and 2014 increased aggregate labor earnings in Germany by 2.1%, or 31.32 billion euros …