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This paper analyzes the main determinants of tenure choice in Brazil in formal and informal housing markets. Logit and Multinomial Logit models with several specifications are used to test the household's tenure choice behavior taking demographic, social, economic and locational factors as...
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bombing designed to undermine enemy morale-the Allied bomber offensive against Germany during World War II. Our evidence shows …
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East and West Germany were far from being randomly selected treatment and control groups. First, the later border is … occupying forces affected East and West differently. Third, a selective fifth of the population fled from East to West Germany …
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We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
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We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal eects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés...
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differences in the fraction of adults co-residing with their parents. Comparing Germany and Italy, we show that in contrast to … capture the three-way trade-off between owning, renting, and co-residing. Calibrating the model to Germany we explore the role …
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-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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persistence. We study the context of Germany in the 2017 federal election, when the emergence of the AfD offered voters a populist …
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case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and administrative features of the … institutional trust in post-reunification Germany. We also find substantial and long-lasting economic effects of Stasi surveillance …
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introduction of the welfare state in 19th century Germany. The reform conducted by the conservative government targeted blue …
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