This research report from the Milken Institute ranks U.S. metropolitan areas that are recording the top economic performance and creating the most jobs in the nation. The index is an outcomes-based measure as opposed to one that incorporates explicit measures of business costs, cost-of-living...

The choice of cultivation techniques is a key determinant of agricultural productivityand has important consequences for income growth and poverty reductionin developing countries. Using household data from Nicaragua this papershows that the choice of cultivation techniques depends on farmers’...

Land is an essential but limited natural resource. We employ the concept of stocks to analysedriving forces for land-use conversion and to assess, whether the German political “30-hectares-goal” is feasible given the current institutional setting. In this paper major drivingforces for...

This article incorporates a political decision process into an urban land use model topredict the likely location of a public good. It fills an important gap in the literature bymodeling the endogenous location of open space. The article compares open spacedecisions made under a majority-rules...

Das gesamte Modul soll normative und ethische Fragen aufzeigen, die sich bezüglich der zukünftigenWaldnutzung stellen. Es macht Interessen, Normen und Wertvorstellungen transparent.Beide Papiere dienen der Diskussionsphase des Projekts als Grundlage. Sie sollen aufgrundihrer bewusst...

In einer berühmten Stadt geboren zu sein, ist die erste Vorraussetzung zum Glück, behauptete Euripides. Städte sind, eher noch als Länder, die wahre heimat eines Menschen. Sie zählen zu seinen stolzesten errungenschaften; vor allem sind sie dauerhafter als Länder mit ihrer...

Using a new source of evidence we explore the geographical mobility of mid-nineteenth century seamen. Among seamen born outside London, the tall, the literate and those who could remember the exact day, month and year when they were born - characteristics that we suggest mark them out as men...

This article illustrates the commonly overlooked sample selection probleminherent in using rural classification methods that change over time due to populationchanges. Since fast growing rural areas grow out of their rural status, using recent ruraldefinitions excludes the most successful places...