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The aim of the survey: to prove, using sociological methods, that some people in Moscow have a so-called Soviet mentality and some have a liberal mentality.At the everyday level and at the level of expert debates and discussions, this fact raises no doubts. It is accepted as reality by default....
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This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...
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This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...
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We examine the value of a statistical life (VSL) in interwar Soviet Union. Our approach requires addressing the preferences of Stalin. We model these on the basis of the policy of statistical repression, which was an integral part of the Great Terror. We use regional variation in the victims...
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in European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with those not exposed, using similar welfare mea …-sures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects relevant welfare measures across regimes, including information …. Our results suggest evidence of comparable welfare inequality trends in countries exposed to SC and those unexposed …
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