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We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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Undoing gender with institutions: Lessons from the German division and reunification

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Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created …

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Math, girls and socialism

Lippmann, Quentin; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2018

gender gap in math is due to social stereotypes; (2) institutions can durably modify these stereotypes. …

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Law and social capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany

Buggle, Johannes C. - 2013

Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …

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Law and Social Capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany

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