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Does regional redistribution spur growth? [PDF]
After the German reunification, interregional subsidies accounted for approximately four percent of gross fixed capital investment in the new federal states.
Koetter, Michael, Wedow, Michael
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‘There Has Been a Scandal’: Cultural Performers and the Strangers’ Churches of London
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite what one might assume to have been a rigid line between London's refugee community—with its strict brand of Protestantism—and the city's performance cultures—often the target of strict Protestants' ire—historical records reveal a number of overlaps between those domains.
Matteo Pangallo
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The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification [PDF]
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
Daniel M. Sturm, Stephen Redding
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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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Education, Research, and Economic Growth [PDF]
It is obvious that the German economy exhibits a significant decline in economic growth during the last two decades. Although the German economy has still to overcome the burden of the reunification in 1990 it is shown that this burden might be only one ...
Caspari, Volker +2 more
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Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany [PDF]
, 2005 Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty.
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar, Nugent, Jeffrey B.
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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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Media content's role in the making of a democrat: Evidence from East Germany
, 2017 This paper explores the causal influence of access to Western television programming on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic in which only geography and topography ...
Friehe, Tim +2 more
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Institutional Reform and Depositors' Portfolio Choice - Evidence from Censored Quantile Regressions [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper we study the effect of institutional reform on the decision to hold risky assets at the extensive and the intensive margin. We therefore make use of the natural experiment of German Division and Reunification and, based on savings bank ...
Berlemann, Michael, Luik, Marc-André
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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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