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Men, women, and the ballot : gender imbalances and suffrage extensions in US states

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2010

Woman suffrage led to one of the greatest enfranchisements in history. Yet, women neither won the right to vote by force, nor did men grant it under the imminent threat of female unrest. These facts are difficult to reconcile with leading political economy theories of suffrage extensions. In...

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Stock price booms and expected capital gains

Adam, Klaus; Beutel, Johannes; Marcet, Albert - 2014

The booms and busts in U.S. stock prices over the post-war period can to a large extent be explained by fluctuations in investors' subjective capital gains expectations. Survey measures of these expectations display excessive optimism at market peaks and excessive pessimism at market throughs....

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Stock price cycles and business cycles

Adam, Klaus; Merkel, Sebastian - 2019

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Implementing quotas in university admissions : an experimental investigation

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea; … - 2012

top-grade students and could thus be a valuable tool for redesigning university admissions in Germany. -- College …

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Immigration and structural change : evidence from post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2012

ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A … support for these predictions. -- Immigration ; sectoral change ; output growth ; post-war Germany …

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The employment effects of immigration : evidence from the mass arrival of German expellees in post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Omar Mahmoud, Toman - 2011

This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War … II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were … West Germany. We find a substantial negative effect of expellee inflows on native employment. The effect was, however …

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Distant event, local effects? : Fukushima and the German housing market

Bauer, Thomas K.; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2013

The Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan in March 2011 caused a fundamental change in Germany's energy policy which led … to the immediate shut down of nearly half of its nuclear power plants. This paper uses data from Germany's largest …

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How do regional labor markets adjust to immigration? : a dynamic analysis for post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Weber, Henning - 2016

We draw on two decades of historical data to analyze how regional labor markets in West Germany adjusted to one of the …, similar in magnitude to the refugee inflow that Germany is experiencing today, also reduce native income losses markedly but …

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Temporary agency work and the great recession

Baumgarten, Daniel; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2016

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War, marriage markets and the sex ratio at birth

Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - 2011

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