Search Results - subject:"West Germany"

Trends in women's educational advantage and divorce in East and West Germany

Mazzeo, Flavia; Schwartz, Christine; Scherer, Stefani; … - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 49 (2024), pp. 317-336

and marital dissolution across four birth cohorts born between 1951 and 1990 in East and West Germany using 37 waves of … persistently being a more gender egalitarian context compared to West Germany. Our results show that marriages in which wives have … more education than their husbands are less stable in West Germany, but not in East Germany, where the point estimates …

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Should mama or papa work? : variations in attitudes towards parental employment by country of origin and child age

Gambaro, Ludovica; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 48 (2023), pp. 369-394

views of respondents with different origins: West Germany, East Germany, immigrants from different world regions, and second …-generation migrants in West Germany. The results highlight remarkable differences between respondents from West and East Germany, with the …

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The effect of West German television on smoking and health : a natural experiment from German reunification

Bernini, Andrea; Hartmann, Sven Alfred - 2025

This paper examines the long-term impact of West German television exposure on smoking behavior in East Germany, with a focus on gender-specific responses. Using data from 1989 and 2002 and leveraging quasi-random variation in West German TV signal availability across East German regions, we...

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Migration and innovation : the impact of East German inventors on West Germany's technological development

Bergeaud, Antonin; Deter, Max; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, … - 2025

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Migration and innovation : the impact of East German investors on West Germany's technological development

Bergeaud, Antonin; Deter, Max; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, … - 2025

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Migration and innovation : the impact of East German inventors on West Germany's technological development

Bergeaud, Antonin; Deter, Max; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, … - 2025

-scale migration shock from East to West Germany between World War II and the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. Leveraging a … in West Germany. Our findings demonstrate a significant and persistent boost to patenting activities in regions with …

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Migration and innovation : the impact of East German inventors on West Germany's technological development

Bergeaud, Antonin; Deter, Max; Greve, Maria; Wyrwich, … - 2025

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To converge or not to converge : accounting for the German reunification

Fehrle, Daniel; Konysev, Vasilij - 2025

German reuniﬁcation in 1990 marked the ﬁrst sudden integration of a socialist and capitalist economy. Despite East Germany’s (EG) economic catch-up with West Ger- many (WG), the integration remains unﬁnished, as indicated by per capita output in EG still being about one-third lower. To...

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35 Jahre grenzenlos : die Entwicklung der Regionen an der ehemaligen innerdeutschen Grenze

Fremerey, Melinda; Gerards Iglesias, Simon - 2025 - Stand: September 2025

Auch 35 Jahre nach der deutschen Einheit wird in Politik und Öffentlichkeit weiterhin intensiv darüber diskutiert, welche Unterschiede zwischen Ost und West bestehen und wie weit das Land tatsächlich zusammengewachsen ist. Besonders deutlich treten diese Differenzen im politischen...

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Does society influence the gender gap in risk attitudes? : evidence from East and West Germany

Chadi, Cornelia; Jirjahn, Uwe - In: Journal of behavioral and experimental economics 113 (2024), pp. 1-11

Previous international research suggests that women are on average more risk averse than men. This gives rise to the question of whether the gender gap in risk attitudes is shaped by the social environment. We address this question by examining risk attitudes among East and West Germans. Even...

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