We estimate the impact of poverty on crime in 19th century Bavaria, Germany. Rainfall is used as an instrumental variable for the price of rye to address identification problems found in the existing literature. The rye price was a major determinant of the cost of living and poverty during this...

This paper analysis the possible demand for nature conservation within the Bavarian population. Drawing on the approach of revealed preferences and the mechanism of vote with their feet of Tiebout (1956) migration patterns in Bavarian counties are examined in more detail in order to assess the...

This paper presents empirical evidence of a positive effect of council size on government spending using a data set of 2,056 municipalities in the German state of Bavaria over a period of 21 years. We apply a regression discontinuity design to avoid an endogeneity bias. In particular, we exploit...

Die Wirtschaftskraft und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit einer Region hängen gerade vor dem Hintergrund des demographischen Wandels und dem daraus folgenden Fachkräftemangel ganz wesentlich von der Qualifikation der Beschäftigten sowie der Bevölkerungsstruktur und -entwicklung ab. Der...