Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2024
We study the post-war effects of the bombing of German cities during WWII on urban growth and use the synthetic control … incorrectly attribute the decline of cities to the WWII bombing shock, while other factors are at work. The SCM takes these … structural changes onboard. The synthetic units are used as counterfactuals to assess the long-run impact following the WWII …