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Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the synthetic control method and data from 20 African countries, this study quantifies the peace dividend in Mozambique, a country that experienced over 15 years of civil war. More specifically, we use data from 1977 to 2018 to investigate whether the end of the civil war in Mozambique in 1992 brought significant benefits to the country ...
Tendai Gwatidzo, Aldo Sitoe, Busani Moyo
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Household Portfolios in Germany [PDF]
This paper describes portfolio choices of German households in the 1980's and 1990's. We present stylized facts and analyze recent trends of asset ownership rates and asset shares on the basis of national accounts and survey data.
Börsch-Supan, Axel, Eymann, Angelika
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The evolution of German's values since reunification [PDF]
, 2013 Exploiting the natural experiment of German reunification, we study whether having experienced socialism has an enduring effect on people's basic values.
Necker, Sarah, Voskort, Andrea
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Estimating The Causal Effect of Income on Health: Evidence from Post Reunification East Germany [PDF]
In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of East Germans in the years following reunification. Reunification was completely unanticipated and therefore can be seen as a providing
John P. Haisken-DeNew +2 more
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Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Socioeconomic developments in high‐income countries since the postwar era have induced fundamental changes in the predominant social risks to which people are exposed. This article seeks to determine whether this evolution is accompanied by changing expectations of the welfare state.
Andrew Zola
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The costs of remoteness: evidence from German division and reunification [PDF]
, 2004 This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard
Redding, Stephen, Sturm, Daniel M.
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Street‐Level Policymaking: From Local Political Preferences to Welfare Policy Delivery
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Street‐level bureaucracy research argues that the local community shapes policy implementation. Yet, little is known about the impact of local political preferences on welfare policy application. This study extends this line of research examining how local political preferences in East Germany are linked to job centres' delivery of active ...
Veronika J. Knize +2 more
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The Long Wind of Change. Educational Impacts on Entrepreneurial Intentions [PDF]
In this paper, we assess educational factors which might have an impact on entrepreneurship. We analyze influences on the entrepreneurial intentions of German university students and find that pre-university education significantly affects their desire ...
Oliver Falck +2 more
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Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract Switzerland's federal structure offers a unique context to examine how cantonal integration policies shape citizens' perceptions of migrants. While research has linked integration policies and citizens' attitudes, it often neglects subnational variation.
Cristina El Khoury
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The Economic Impact of Social Ties: Evidence from German Reunification
, 2011 Konrad Burchardi, Tarek A. Hassan
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