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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022

communism. …

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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and informal family insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2020

We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on … variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Against the backdrop that ‘communism gives …, suggesting that (raising uncertainty and adversity during) communism increased the demand for all types of available insurance. …

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Partisan fiscal policy : evidence from Central and Eastern Europe

Schneider, Ondřej - 2019

This paper examines effects of political ideology of a governing party on fiscal outcomes, using data from eight Central and Eastern European countries in the 2001-2017 period. The analysis shows that there is a statistically significant effect of conservative governments on fiscal variables,...

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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism

Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in …

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A different look at Lenin's legacy : trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies

Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this …

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Russians' "impressionable years" : life experience during the exit from communism and Putin-era beliefs

Pyle, William - 2020

impressionable during this exit-from-communism period. Individual economic hardship, in conjunction with the dissolution of the … Soviet Union, may have been particularly disorienting for those living in the country in which communism first took root …

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The inequality and mobility of exposure to European Soviet Communism

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Roig, Melcior Rossello - 2025

We compare inequality and social mobility trends in European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with those not exposed, using similar welfare mea-sures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects relevant welfare measures across regimes, including information on...

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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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The importance of the electoral rule : evidence from Italy

Bordignon, Massimo; Monticini, Andrea - 2011

We employ bootstrap methods (Efron (1979)) to test the effect of an important electoral reform implemented in Italy from 1993 to 2001, that moved the system for electing the Par-liament from purely proportional to plurality rule (for 75% of the seats). We do not find any effect on either the...

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