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The long-term direct and external effects of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2011

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with...

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Surviving the genocide : the impact of the Rwandan genocide on child mortality

Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

Between April and July 1994 Rwanda experienced a tremendous wave of inter-ethnic violence that caused at least 500,000 deaths. Combining birth history data drawn from the 2000 Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey with prefecture-level information on the intensity of the conflict, we examine the...

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Business in genocide : understanding and avoiding complicity

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016

Genocides and mass atrocities do not arise spontaneously, but tend to be meticulously sourced and managed. As such the concern in this paper is with the role of businesses in these processes, with a particular focus on the agency and decision making of entrepreneurs and managers. We critically...

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Social networks and surviving the Holocaust

Bělín, Matěj; Jelínek, Tomáš; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2022

Survivor testimonies link survival in deadly POW camps, Gulags, and Nazi concentration camps to the formation of close friendships with other prisoners. We provide statistical evidence consistent with these fundamentally selective testimonies. We study the survival of the 140 thousand Jews who...

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The effects of conflict on fertility : evidence from the genocide in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; … - 2019

This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the hazard of having a child in the early post-genocide period and on the total number of post-genocide births up to 15 years following the conflict. We use individual-level data...

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Give and you shall receive : the emergence of welfare-reducing reciprocity

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Vorster, Melissa - 2015

We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...

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Clean money in a dirty system : relationship networks and land rezoning in Queensland

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul - 2015

We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully gaining value-enhancing rezoning. A State authority, the Urban Land Development Authority (ULDA),...

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Gender and corruption : a reassessment

Debski, Julia; Jetter, Michael - 2015

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …

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Corruption in the health sector : evidence from unofficial consultation fees in Bangladesh

Abdallah, Wahid; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Iqbal, Kazi - 2015

for combating corruption, especially in developing countries. …

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Testing an EU-candidate's place on the maps of global economic, political and social values : the case of Turkey

Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2014

Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World Values Survey (WVS) to arrive at robust measurement scales of global economic, political and social...

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