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Scraping Austrian COVID19 Data with R
The Austrian government has made it very hard to obtain COVID19 data that can be compared over time. Initially the health ministry started with a website where the total number of cases and deaths were hand-edited into an html file two times a day. Later some regions were added. Some regions themselves started to independently report the number of positive tests for their districts (Bezirke), others explicitly refused to do this.
A Spatial Economist's Guide to Mumbai
Propedeutics and Motivation. Urbanisation in developing economies is finally starting to get the recognition that it deserves within the profession. Apart from the recent special issue in the JoUE edited by Glaeser and Henderson (2017), there finally is a paper that provides a theoretical explanation for how poor megacities can come about: Jedwab and Vollrath (n.d.) in the AEJ:Macro (I personally would have loved to see that in a top5 since it is so unique and the first of its kind)1.
