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Forced displacement in history : some recent research

Becker, Sascha O. - 2022

economic history. While many of the episodes covered refer to Europe, this survey points to literature across all continents …

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Forced migration, staying minorities, and new societies : evidence from post-war Czechoslovakia

Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021

How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental...

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Refugee resettlement, redistribution and growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2018

This paper studies the effect of refugee resettlement on human capital accumulation. The analysis is performed in a … growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less … countries. I also derive conditions for the proposed resettlement policy to stimulate human capital accumulation and hence …

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Temporary internal displacement and receiving communities' voting behavior

Carrozzo, Salvatore - 2025

This paper investigates the effect of a temporary forced internal migration on the voting behavior in the receiving municipalities. During World War I, around 500,00 thousand displaced nationals were resettled from the Italian government within the country and stayed in the receiving place for...

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'Whatever is, is right? : Economic institutions in pre-industrial Europe (Tawney lecture 2006)

Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. (contributor) - 2007

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Fair institutions

Valasek, Justin; Wang, Weijia - 2025

The experimental literature on preferences for redistribution has established that individual perceptions of what earning distributions are fair depend greatly on context. In this paper, we study an important and novel dimension of context: whether the choice to redistribute occurs before...

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Are bad institutions always bad for society? : trust and cooperation in times of crisis

Conzo, Pierluigi; Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, … - 2025 - This Version: July 9, 2025

This paper investigates how institutional and social trust respond to crisis situations, and to what extent different kinds of trust interact in such a context. In an online survey experiment on 4,400 representative respondents from Italy, participants are exposed to a real-world flooding...

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Geography, institutions, and entrepreneurship

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, … - 2025

The geographic spread of nations would pose logistics challenges in production, distribution and servicing, impacting costs, with implications for entrepreneurship. Using panel data from 62 countries spanning the years 2006 to 2021, we find that of the different oceanic geographic dimensions...

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Can institutional transplants work? : a reassessment of the evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia

Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2021

The institutional reforms France imposed in the parts of Germany it occupied in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries are claimed to provide an example of successful externally-imposed institutional reforms. The most detailed study is that of Lecce and Ogliari (2019), who argue that...

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Impact of colonial institutions on economic growth and development in India : evidence from night lights data

Jha, Priyaranjan; Talathi, Karan - 2021

We study the implications of two historical institutions, direct British rule, and the heterogeneous land tenure institutions implemented by the British, on disparity in present day development using district level data from India. Using nightlights per capita as a proxy for district level per...

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