August Lösch Prize 2018

                                              

The City of Heidenheim an der Brenz and the August Lösch Association jointly grant the August Lösch Prize 2018.

The prize was created in 1971 and first awarded in 1972 by the City of Heidenheim in honour of August Lösch (1906-1945), one of the founders of modern Regional Science and a former citizen of Heidenheim.

The August-Lösch Prize 2018 goes to Prof. Jorge de la Roca, Ph.D. (Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California) for his Ph.D. Thesis on "Migration, Self-Selection, and Learning in Cities", and was awarded at the GfR/ERSA Summer Conference 2018 on "Border Regions" in Berlin, Sept. 6th/7th.

For the Prize Committee,
Kristof Dascher