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Title: Gibrat's Law for Cities: Evidence From World War I Casualties
Author-Name: Antonio Ciccone
Author-Email: antonio.ciccone@uni-mannheim.de

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Abstract: According to Gibrat's law for cities, population shocks have
permanent effects on city size. I examine this implication by analyzing
the persistence of observed population shocks: German military
casualties in WWI by municipality of birth. I find a strong negative
effect of military casualties on the male population of municipalities
just after WWI. This effect persists to 1933 and, outside of the most
agricultural municipalities, beyond. The effect on female population
and the number of households is similar to the effect on male
population by 1950, when women in the generation that fought in
WWI started reaching their life expectancy.

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Length: 41
Creation-Date: 2021-04
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File-URL: https://www.crctr224.de/research/discussion-papers/archive/dp286
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Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:CRCTR224_2021_286