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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention
Moser, Petra - 2014
Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...
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Religious Identity and Economic Behavior
Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2010
contribute less to public goods, and become less risk averse. Jews more strongly reciprocate as an employee in a bilateral labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144507
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The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival and Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition in Torah Education
Carlton, Dennis W.; Weiss, Avi - 2021
simple. Although Judaism has used a whole host of restrictions on competition and has had its share of legislation to promote … survival and perpetuation of Judaism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310128
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Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice : an Economist'S View of Ultra-Orthodox Jews
Berman, Eli; Klinov, Ruth - 2021
The Israeli Ultra-Orthodox population doubles each seventeen years. With 60 % of prime aged males attending Yeshiva rather than working, that community is rapidly outgrowing its resources. Why do fathers with families in poverty choose Yeshiva over work? Draft deferments subsidize Yeshiva...
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Married to Intolerance : Attitudes Towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006
Voigtländer, Nico - 2013
towards intermarriage with Jews. At the same time, our empirical analysis also cautions against using intermarriage as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086668
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Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?
Abramitzky, Ran - 2020
In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non Jews, but show that this … finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas …
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Israel's Immigration Story : Globalization Lessons
Razin, Assaf - 2017
The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The extraordinary experience of Israel, which has …
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Israel's Immigration Story : Winners and Losers
Razin, Assaf - 2018
The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928310
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Leaving the Enclave : Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office
Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah Platt; Connor, Dylan S. - 2022
We study a program that funded 39,000 Jewish households in New York City to leave enclave neighborhoods circa 1910. Compared to their neighbors with the same occupation and income score at baseline, program participants earned 4 percent more ten years after removal, and these gains persisted to...
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Social Structure and Development : A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia
Acemoglu, Daron; Hassan, Tarek A.; Robinson, James A. - 2010
We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust …. Before World War II, Russian Jews were predominantly in white collar (middle class) occupations and the Holocaust appears to …
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