This paper studies the effects of WWII exposure, including displacement, injury, and captivity, on labor market careers, revealing that these effects often became apparent long after the war’s end.

This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an essential determinant of the pronounced changes in economic prosperity across German regions over the last 100 years.

This paper shows that war widowhood increased women’s employment in West Germany immediately after World War II but led to lower employment rates later in life.

This paper studies the average and heterogeneous effects of railway access on parish-level population, income, and industrialization in Württemberg during the Industrial Revolution.

This paper studies how regional labor markets adjusted to the arrival of eight million German expellees in West Germany after World War II using a dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to historical data.

This paper shows that the inflow of eight million displaced Germans to West Germany after WWII had lasting effects within but not between local labor markets, highlighting how spatial units shape estimates of population shock persistence.

This paper studies how settlement locations affected the economic, social, and political integration of the eight million forced migrants who arrived in West Germany after WWII.

This paper shows that across multiple generations, the persistence of occupational and educational attainment in Germany is larger than estimates from two generations suggest.

This paper studies how Fukushima and the subsequent nuclear power plant closures in Germany affected local housing prices using data from Germany’s largest real estate internet platform.

This paper shows that post-WWII expellee inflows accelerated the shift from agriculture to higher-productivity sectors, but lowered productivity within sectors.

This paper studies the implementation of quotas in matching markets, comparing a sequential procedure used in Germany’s university admissions clearinghouse with a simultaneous mechanism based on a modified deferred acceptance algorithm.

This paper shows that post-WWII expellee inflows reduced native employment, but only in labor market segments with very high inflow rates.

This paper analyses the economic integration of German expellees and their offspring in West Germany following one of the largest forced population movements in history.

This paper studies the timing of suffrage extensions in US states between 1869 and 1919, finding that a scarcity of women strongly promoted early transitions to women’s suffrage.