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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022

communism. …

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The separation and reunification of Germany : rethinking a natural experiment interpretation of the enduring effects of communism

Becker, Sascha O.; Mergele, Lukas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

described as a natural experiment to study the enduring effects of communism. We show in three steps that the populations in …

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Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration

Flückiger, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; Larch, Mario; … - 2019 - This version: July 2019

We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data on excavated Roman ceramics, we document that interregional trade was strongly influenced by...

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A different look at Lenin's legacy : trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies

Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010

What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this …

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Bread and bullets

Akerlof, George A.; Snower, Dennis J. - 2016

Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; focusing attention; predicting events; motivating action; assigning social roles and identities;...

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Comrades in the family? : Soviet communism and informal family insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna - 2020

We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on … variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). Against the backdrop that ‘communism gives …, suggesting that (raising uncertainty and adversity during) communism increased the demand for all types of available insurance. …

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Russians' "impressionable years" : life experience during the exit from communism and Putin-era beliefs

Pyle, William - 2020

impressionable during this exit-from-communism period. Individual economic hardship, in conjunction with the dissolution of the … Soviet Union, may have been particularly disorienting for those living in the country in which communism first took root …

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The effects on inequality and mobility of exposure to Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Roig, Melcior Rossello - 2025 - This Version: June 2025

We compare inequality and social mobility trends in Eastern European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with those not exposed, using similar welfare measures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects relevant welfare measures across regimes including information...

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