This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

This dissertation consists of three independent articles. The first chapter “Giants and Midgets: the Effect of Public Goods’ Provision on Urban Population Concentration” analyses population distribution within a system of cities with availability of public goods in the country and provides...