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The paper looks at the persistence of egalitarian norms in post-Communist societies by focusing on the former members of the Communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Russia and their children. Using the individual-level survey data, we show that there are striking differences...
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Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is … Republic. We also find that post-secondary education acquired under communism yields higher, not lower, payoffs than similar …
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After the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, former party members were particularly likely to start …
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We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large representative survey, conducted in post-socialist countries in 2015/16. To deal with endogeneity, we...
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What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this …
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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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Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives …
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We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on … variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Against the backdrop that 'communism gives …, suggesting that (raising uncertainty and adversity during) communism increased the demand for all types of available insurance …
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There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
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This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although these estimates differ widely across individuals, the data clearly show that most individuals...
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