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Learning to Participate in Politics : Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2017

Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We find that the expulsion of Jewish professionals had long …

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Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014

Bartels, Charlotte - 2018

This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present … of the millennium, income concentration in Germany has been on the rise and is today among the highest in Europe …

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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational … residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with individual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Our … identification strategy exploits the plausibly exogenous city-by-cohort variation in the Jewish population in Germany as a unique …

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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany : From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014

employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era …

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The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Blum, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; … - 2023

How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893 1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic's effect on voting behavior across German constituencies. Applying a dynamic...

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How to Control for Many Covariates? Reliable Estimators Based on the Propensity Score

Huber, Martin - 2010

usually employed for the evaluation of labour market programmes in Germany. We vary several dimensions of the design that are …

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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables

Lechner, Michael - 2011

Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...

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Does the Estimation of the Propensity Score by Machine Learning Improve Matching Estimation? The Case of Germany's Programmes for Long Term Unemployed

Goller, Daniel - 2019

Matching-type estimators using the propensity score are the major workhorse in active labour market policy evaluation. This work investigates if machine learning algorithms for estimating the propensity score lead to more credible estimation of average treatment effects on the treated using a...

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Consistent Estimation of the Fixed Effects Ordered Logit Model

Baetschmann, Gregori - 2011

The paper re-examines existing estimators for the panel data fixed effects ordered logit model, proposes a new one, and studies the sampling properties of these estimators in a series of Monte Carlo simulations. There are two main findings. First, we show that some of the estimators used in the...

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The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators

Bodory, Hugo - 2016

is based on large scale labor market data from Germany and varies w.r.t. treatment selectivity, effect heterogeneity, the …

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