In den letzten Jahrzehnten ging die Schere zwischen den Reichen und der übrigen Gesellschaft immer weiter auseinander. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurden Ungleichheit und Reichtum nicht nur von den Sozialwissenschaften und anderen Disziplinen als Forschungsthemen wiederentdeckt, sondern zuletzt auch...

A common problem in historical research involves harmonizing geographic units across time or different levels of aggregation. One approach is to use " crosswalks" that associate factors located within one geographic unit to different " reference" units based on relative areas . We develop an...

In applied historical research, geographic units often differ in level of aggregation across datasets. One solution is to use crosswalks that associate factors located within one geographic unit to another, based on their relative areas. We develop an alternative approach based on relative...