The availability of public education services can influence residential choices. Hence, policies aiming to `rationalise' service provision by reducing the number of undersized nodes in the public school network can lead to population decline, especially in spatially isolated areas lacking valid...

The availability of public education services can influence residential choices. Hence, policies aiming to ‘rationalise’ service provision by cutting on under- sized nodes of the public school network can induce population decline. This paper exploits an Italian education reform inducing a...

This paper analyses institutional changes in local governance structures as determinants of wage premia and innovation capacity of urban areas. By combining individual and metropolitan area data for the US, we study the role of institutional fragmentation related to the number of local...