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Persecution and escape : professional networks and high-skilled emigration from Nazi Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun W.; … - 2021

We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...

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Price and prejudice : housing rents reveal racial animus

Brülhart, Marius; Klinke, Gian-Paolo; Marcucci, Andrea; … - 2023

We study market rents in the neighborhood of asylum seeker hosting centers. Our empirical setting exploits the quasi-random opening of centers and spatial allocation of asylum seekers in Switzerland. Rents within 0.7km of an active center are found on average to be 3.8% lower than rents in the...

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Discrimination, managers, and firm performance : evidence from "aryanizations" in Nazi Germany

Huber, Kilian; Lindenthal, Volker; Waldinger, Fabian - 2020

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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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

-Semitic acts and denunciations of Jews to authorities by ordinary Germans. The effect of anti-Semitic propaganda varied depending …

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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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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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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment

Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …

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