This paper presents a New Economic Geography model with distortionary taxation and endogenized trade costs. Tax revenues finance a public good, infrastructure. We show that the introduction of costly public investment in infrastructure increases agglomerative tendencies. With respect to the...

This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden the lens to emphasize the idiosyncrasy of conscious and unconscious decisions that researchers make...

This study examines whether intra-European migration pays off in terms of income and subjective well-being (SWB) for migrants aged 50 + who are now growing old abroad and in what way their SWB is associated with their relative income position. Using panel data from the Survey of Health, Ageing...

Durch den Anstieg des Anteils älterer Menschen an der Gesamtbevölkerung ist es auch für die Epidemiologie von besonderem Interesse, welche Faktoren gesundes Altern beeinflussen. 2011 wurde daher innerhalb der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi) eine Arbeitsgruppe...