We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation...

We establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting...

We provide empirical evidence that the experience of a socialist regime leads to a lack of self-reliance by comparing East and West...

We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009. Looking at...

It is often the case that an endogenous treatment variable causally affects an intermediate variable that in turn causally affects a...

We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university...

The internet is the new mass medium that affects many aspects of everyday life. Empirical evidence during the initial phase of the...

This paper analyses the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address endogeneity in Internet...