We leverage decades of administrative data and quasi-experimental variation in the introduction of universal long-term care (LTC) insurance in Germany in 1995 to examine whether health insurance expansions can stimulate local economies. We find that the LTC insurance rollout led not only to...

Tourism influences local economies through direct, indirect, and induced effects. Using novel firm-to-firm transaction data, we shed light on tourism's indirect effects. We find that tourism firms primarily source inputs locally or from the capital, with limited purchases from distant, poorer...

This study aimed to examine land cover transformations in the Zhytomyr Region of Ukraine in response to decentralisation and war. It focused on assessing how shifts in local governance and the full-scale invasion have influenced land use dynamics, particularly changes in agricultural expansion,...