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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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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

" (2012, subsequently PP) and Satyanath, Voigtländer and Voth: Bowling for Fascism (2017, subsequently BF). They allege that …

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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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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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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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Lifting the veil of ignorance : survey experiments on preferences for wealth redistribution

Stumpf, Elisa; Übelmesser, Silke - 2024

We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large … position in it. Second, we investigate how preferences for wealth redistribution are affected by an information experiment. One … redistribution, we find no significant average treatment effect for either treatment in the full sample, although those who …

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Inequality, public wealth, and the federal shareholder

Corneo, Giacomo - 2016

evolution by enhancing the role of public capital as a redistribution and empowerment device. The governance of public capital …

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Distributional effects of the wealth tax under a lifetime-dynastic income concept

Halvorsen, Elin; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2017

Recent books by Thomas Piketty (Piketty, 2014) and Anthony Atkinson (Atkinson, 2015) have brought the annual wealth tax back on the policy agenda. Both authors suggest using the annual wealth tax to supplement the redistributional effects of the income tax, assigning it a role as a...

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