towards intermarriage with Jews. At the same time, our empirical analysis also cautions against using intermarriage as a …

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 …

The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The extraordinary experience of Israel, which has …

The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large …

. Before World War II, Russian Jews were predominantly in white collar (middle class) occupations and the Holocaust appears to …We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution and mass murder of Jews (the Holocaust …) by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the …

Communism for a longer time period. We further find that East Germans' preferences converge towards those of West Germans. We …

We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in …