title: Essays on Political Economy creator: Quinckhardt, Matthias subject: ddc-320 subject: 320 Political science subject: ddc-330 subject: 330 Economics description: This dissertation contains three essays on political economy. The first essay examines the political determinants of the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in Germany with a special focus on local politics. The second essay analyses the local labor market effects of college openings in Germany and the final essay estimates the effects of a large negative shock to local populations - German casualties in World War I - on the local economy. date: 2022 type: Dissertation type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32087/1/quinckhardt_thesis_final_pub.pdf identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00032087 identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-320873 identifier: Quinckhardt, Matthias (2022) Essays on Political Economy. [Dissertation] relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32087/ rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess rights: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/help/license_urhg.html language: eng