Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...

Multilokale Wohnformen gab es schon immer, aber ihre Ausprägungen haben sich über die Zeiten hinweg verändert. Multilokales Wohnen (MW) entsteht aus Triebkräften, von denen manche raum- und epochenübergreifend wirk(t)en, wie die finanzielle Leistungsfähigkeit der Eliten, andere sich jedoch...

This short article introduces the German Cliometrics Database as the foundation for an article by Jopp and Spoerer (2024) who trace cliometric research on German history. This newly constructed database of every publication that (1) contributes to the historiography of Germany and (2) employs,...

The Nordic Model is the 20th-century Scandinavian recipe for combining stable democracies, individual freedom, economic growth and comprehensive systems for social security. But what happens when Sweden and Finland - two countries topping global indexes for competitiveness, productivity, growth,...