A one-to-one link is developed between overlapping sub-regional entities using geographical tools newly available to the Economic Research Community. The aim of this project is to create a database exploiting the geographical variation in publicly available data, in order to better control for...

By seeking to uncover the rules of collective human activities, today's statistical physicists are aiming to return to their roots. Statistics originated in the study of social numbers in the 17th century, and the discovery of statistical invariants in data on births and deaths, crimes and...