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Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance : Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany

Huber, Kilian; Lindenthal, Volker; Waldinger, Fabian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in...

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Highway to Hitler

Voigtlaender, Nico - 2014

Democracy is not an absorbing state; transitions to autocratic rule have been frequent throughout history and often followed periods of instability under democratic rule. In this paper, we ask whether autocrats can win support among voters by showcasing their ability to restore order and to "get...

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Bowling for Fascism : Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party

Satyanath, Shanker - 2013

Social capital is often associated with desirable political and economic outcomes. This paper contributes to the literature exploring the "dark side" of social capital, examining the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We collect new data on the density of associations in 229 German towns...

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Persecution Perpetuated : The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

Voigtlaender, Nico - 2011

How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many...

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Weak States : Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia

Acemoglu, Daron - 2017

We document that the spread of the Mafia in Sicily at the end of the 19th century was in part shaped by the rise of socialist Peasant Fasci organizations. In an environment with weak state presence, this socialist threat triggered landholders, estate managers and local politicians to turn to the...

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War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism : An Empirical Exploration

Acemoglu, Daron - 2020

of the rise of Fascism in inter-war years. In this paper, we argue that there was a strong link between the surge of … support for the Socialist Party after World War I (WWI) and the subsequent emergence of Fascism in Italy. We first develop a … elites played an important role in the rise of Fascism. Finally, we find greater likelihood of Jewish deportations in 1943 …

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Press Coverage and Political Accountability

Snyder, James M, Jr - 2008

In this paper we estimate the impact of press coverage on citizen knowledge, politicians' actions, and policy. We find that a poor fit between newspaper markets and political districts reduces press coverage of politics. We use variation in this fit due to redistricting to identify the effects...

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What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2006

We construct a new index of media slant that measures whether a news outlet.s language is more similar to that of a congressional Republican or Democrat. We apply the measure to study the market forces that determine political con- tent in the news. We estimate a model of newspaper demand that...

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The Rise of the Fourth Estate : How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered

Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Goldin, Claudia; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2004

A free and informative press is widely agreed to be crucial to the democratic process today. But throughout much of the nineteenth century U.S. newspapers were often public relations tools funded by politicians, and newspaper independence was a rarity. The newspaper industry underwent...

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"Rain Follows the Plow" and Dryfarming Doctrine : The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925

Libecap, Gary D. - 2000

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the North American agricultural frontier moved for the first time into semi-arid regions where farming was vulnerable to drought. Farmers who migrated to the region had to adapt their crops, techniques, and farm sizes to better fit the environment. But...

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