capitalism after the split up of Czechoslovakia. An additional year spent under democracy increases height by 0.286cm for Slovaks …Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … and 0.148cm for Czechs. Although transition paths differ across the two countries, the absolute height gap between Slovaks …

micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market … economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained … firms during the transition. Our estimates also indicate that men's wage-experience profile was concave in both regimes and …