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Employment industry and occupational continuity in Germany : from the Nazi regime to the post-war economic miracle
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014
Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...
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Dictatorship, higher education, and social mobility
Bautista, María Angélica; González, Felipe; … - 2024
. We focus on the 1973 coup that brought Augusto Pinochet to power in Chile. The Pinochet dictatorship's aims of political …
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Empowerment or indoctrination? : female training programs under dictatorship
González, Felipe; Prem, Mounu; Dessauer, Cristine von - 2024
Autocrats often control social organizations to disseminate their ideology. We examine the Pinochet dictatorship in … for women as mothers and housewives. Partnering with higher education institutions, the dictatorship delivered training … participation among women directly exposed during the dictatorship and their daughters raised in democracy. …
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A theory of military dictatorships
Acemoglu, Daron (contributor); Ticchi, Davide (contributor);  … - 2008
not sufficient, the military can take action against a nondemocratic regime in order to create its own dictatorship. A …
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Resisting moral wiggle room : how robust is reciprocity?
Weele, Joël J. van der; Kulisa, Julija; Kosfeld, Michael; … - 2010
Several studies have shown that dictator-game giving declines substantially if the dictator can exploit situational "excuses" for not being generous. In this experimental study we investigate if this result extends to more natural social interactions involving reciprocal behavior. We provide the...
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Democracy, dictatorship and the cultural transmission of political values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013
We develop a theory of endogenous regimes transitions (with a focus on democratic consolidation), which emphasizes the role of political culture and of its interaction with political institutions. Political culture reflects the extent of individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy...
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Gender effects, culture and social influence in the dictator game : an Italian study
O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - 2015
There is little consensus on whether women are more generous than men; some research results indicate a higher propensity towards giving of female dictators, whilst others suggest the opposite. Two explanations have been put forward. According to the first one, women are more generous than men...
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Roots of autocracy
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2017
Exploiting a novel geo-referenced data set of population diversity across ethnic groups, this research advances the hypothesis and empirically establishes that variation in population diversity across human societies, as determined in the course of the exodus of humans from Africa tens of...
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Motivated memory in dictator games
Saucet, Charlotte; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2018
The memory people have of their past behavior is one of the main sources of information about themselves. To study whether people retrieve their memory self-servingly in social encounters, we designed an experiment in which participants play binary dictator games and then have to recall the...
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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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