TY - GEN TI - Essays on Political Economy CY - Heidelberg N2 - 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. ID - heidok32087 Y1 - 2022/// UR - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32087/ AV - public A1 - Quinckhardt, Matthias ER -