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Autarchy, market disintegration, and health : the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933-1937
Baten, Jörg; Wagner, Andrea - 2002
We compare trends in mortality, nutritional status and food supply to other living standard indicators for the early years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in the mid-1930s, even relative to those of 1932, the worst...
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Radio and the rise of the Nazis in prewar Germany
Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - 2015
How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a dictatorial regime? We study these questions in the context of Germany of the 1920s and 1930s. During the democratic period, when the Weimar government introduced pro-government...
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Historical roots of political extremism : the effects of Nazi occupation of Italy
Fontana, Nicola; Nannicini, Tommaso; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2017
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy. We study the impact of these traumatic events by exploiting geographic heterogeneity in the duration and intensity of civil war, and the persistence of the...
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From the death of god to the rise of Hitler
Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023
Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion, emphasizing redemption, sacrifice, rituals, and communal spirit. This had a major impact on its success: Where the Christian Church only had shallow roots, the Nazis received...
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Going to extremes : politics after financial crisis, 1870 - 2014
Funke, Manuel; Schularick, Moritz; Trebesch, Christoph - 2015
Partisan conflict and policy uncertainty are frequently invoked as factors contributing to slow post-crisis recoveries. Recent events in Europe provide ample evidence that the political aftershocks of financial crises can be severe. In this paper we study the political fall-out from systemic...
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Medieval anti-semitism, Weimar social capital, and the rise of the nazi party : a reconsideration
Guinnane, Timothy; Hoffman, Philip - 2022
The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This influential literature marks a promising development but has drawn criticism. We discuss two prominent examples that ground the rise of the Nazi Party in distant historical roots....
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Response to Guinnane and Hoffman : medieval anti-semitism, Weimar social capital, and the rise of the Nazi Party : a reconsideration
Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2022
Guinnane and Hoffman (subsequently GH) comment on two of our papers: Voigtländer and Voth: "Persecution Perpetuated" (2012, subsequently PP) and Satyanath, Voigtländer and Voth: Bowling for Fascism (2017, subsequently BF). They allege that our econometric results are fragile and depend on...
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One pillar crumbling, the others too short : old-age provision in Germany
Werding, Martin - 2016
Public pay-as-you-go pensions still form the dominant pillar of old-age provision in Germany. This is in marked contrast to the situation in Anglo-Saxon countries. It has advantages if labour markets are strong, e.g., following a quick recovery from the Great Recession. It has disadvantages, as...
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Aufschwung mit Schwächen : Prognose der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung 2016/2017
Horn, Gustav A.; Behringer, Jan; Herzog-Stein, Alexander; … - 2016
Hintergrund auch im Prognosezeitraum unter ihren Produktionsmöglichkeiten bleiben.Das gilt weniger ausgeprägt auch für Deutschland … wird Deutschland in diesem Jahr einen höheren Überschuss im Außenhandel aufweisen als je zuvor.Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt … (BIP) in Deutschland wird infolge der kräftigen Entwicklung in der ersten Jahreshälfte um 1,9 % im Jahresdurchschnitt …
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Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016
Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure...
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