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Wie die Vergangenheit zählt. Ein Kooperationsprojekt zur Geschichte des Statistischen Bundesamtes

Brückweh, Kerstin; Burmistr, Svetlana; Treffenfeldt, Paul - 2026

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A tale of three industries : the rise, decline and rise again of the Swedish life sciences sector

Abdi, Ismail; Dugo, Andrea; Erixon, Fredrik; Guinea, Oscar - 2026

In this report we show that the Swedish life sciences sector has changed remarkably in the past 30 years and that is yet again positioned for rapid growth. We identify three distinct phases of the development in the last three decades - rise, decline, and rise again. Compared to 30 years ago,...

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Wie die Vergangenheit zählt : ein Kooperationsprojekt zur Geschichte des Statistischen Bundesamtes

Brückweh, Kerstin; Burmistr, Svetlana; Treffenfeldt, Paul - 2026

Das Statistische Bundesamt ist die zentrale Behörde, die quantitatives amtliches Wissen über die deutsche Gesellschaft produziert und verbreitet. Sowohl die Inhalte dieser Daten als auch die Institution und ihre Akteure unterliegen einem historischen Wandel. Das Projekt "Wie die Vergangenheit...

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The dynamics of revolutions

Michaeli, Moti; Spiro, Daniel - 2025

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The fundamental principles of covert military action : lessons from India's 1971 experience

Chaya, Dheeraj Paramesha - 2024

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Did CIA interventions increase US arms exports? : evidence from the Cold War (1962-1989)

Baronchelli, Adelaide; Caruso, Raul - 2024

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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024

This paper introduces the concept of "climate matching" as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015), whereby movers select...

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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024

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Homeward Bound : How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024

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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2024

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Homeward bound : how migrants seek out familiar climates

Obolensky, Marguerite; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A. - 2023

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Early Life Healthcare Access and Later-life Mortality : Evidence Using Openings of County Health Departments

Noghanibehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason - 2026

This paper examines the long-term effects of early-life exposure to county health departments (CHDs), a public health initiative aimed at providing affordable healthcare access to disadvantaged and underserved areas during the early decades of the 20th century, on later-life longevity. We employ...

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How the energy crises paved the way for a path dependence on unregulated financial markets in both the capitalist West and the socialist East

Selva, Simone - 2023

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How the energy crises paved the way for a path dependence on unregulated financial markets in both the capitalist West and the socialist East

Selva, Simone - 2023

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The unreformable alternative: Rethinking the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe

Cucciolla, Riccardo Mario - 2023

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The unreformable alternative : rethinking the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe

Cucciolla, Riccardo Mario - 2023

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The institutional design of European integration: EEC social concerns and development policies between 1957 and 1973

Amoroso, Renato Raffaele - 2023

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The institutional design of European integration : EEC social concerns and development policies between 1957 and 1973

Amoroso, Renato Raffaele - 2023

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Finance and Climate Resilience : Evidence from the long 1950s US Drought

Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Ramcharan, Rodney - 2023

We study how the availability of credit shapes adaptation to a climatic shock, specifically, the long 1950s US drought. We find that bank lending, net immigration, and population growth decline sharply in drought exposed areas with limited initial access to bank finance. In contrast,...

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Finance and Climate Resilience : Evidence from the Long 1950s US Drought

Rajan, Raghuram Govind; Ramcharan, Rodney - 2023

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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race - predominantly "white" - to U.S.-born...

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Which Mexicans Are White? : Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

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The Great Migration and educational opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2024

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The Great Migration and educational opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023

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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023

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The great migration and educational opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022

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The Great Migration and educational opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022

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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2023

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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022

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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - 2022

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Die Übernahme : wie Ostdeutschland Teil der Bundesrepublik wurde

Kowalczuk, Ilko-Sascha - 2025 - 8., um ein Nachwort erweiterte Auflage

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The annual register : world events ...

Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest; 1759-[?]: London : Longman; … - 1.1758(1759) - 104.1862(1863); [105.]1863(1864) - …

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A Different World : Enduring Effects of School Desegregation on Ideology and Attitudes

Kaplan, Ethan; Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Tuttle, Cody - 2025

In 1975, a federal court ordered the desegregation of public schools in Jefferson County, KY. In order to approximately equalize the share of minorities across schools, students were assigned to a busing schedule that depended on the first letter of their last name. We use the resulting...

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Competition and Consumer Discrimination

Jones, Maggie; Logan, Trevon D.; Rosé, David; Cook, Lisa D. - 2025

This paper studies consumer discrimination while taking into consideration the role of competition between firms, providing one of the first large-scale comprehensive analyses of consumer discrimination and market forces. We formally model consumer discrimination, where some majority-group...

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Expropriation Without Compensation : Copper in Chile, 1970-1973

Edwards, Sebastian - 2025

In this essay, I analyze the nationalization of large copper mines during Salvador Allende's socialist government in Chile in the 1970s. This is one of the earliest cases "nationalization without compensation." Chile's legal argument was based on the novel idea that "adequate" payment should be...

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Did the Modern Mortgage Set the Stage for the U.S. Baby Boom?

Dettling, Lisa J.; Kearney, Melissa Schettini - 2025

This paper proposes that the adoption of the modern U.S. mortgage (i.e., low down payment, long-term, and fixed-rate)--led by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and Veteran's Administration (VA) loan insurance programs--set the stage for the mid-twentieth century U.S. baby boom by...

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The Therapeutic Consequences of the War : World War II and the 20th-Century Expansion of Biomedicine

Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2025

During World War II, the U.S. Committee on Medical Research (CMR) undertook an integrated, cross-sectoral effort to develop medical science and technology for war, representing the U.S. government's first substantial investment in medical research. Using data on all CMR research contracts, we...

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Gebrochene Versprechen : das Ende des Kalten Krieges und der Aufstieg des Neoliberalismus

Bartel, Fritz - 2025 - 1. Auflage

Der Kalte Krieg begann als Wettstreit zwischen kapitalistischen und kommunistischen Regierungen, die ihren Bürgerinnen und Bürgern auf unterschiedlichen Wegen ein besseres Leben ermöglichen wollten. Doch die wirtschaftlichen Erschütterungen der 1970er Jahre machten solche Versprechen auf...

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The Anatomy of a Policy Failure: Nixon's Attempt to Control Inflation

Abrams, Burton A.; Butkiewicz, James L. - 2025

Abstract Richard Nixon and his advisors were aware of the inherent economic problems of wage–price controls: suppressed inflation, shortages, biases, avoidance, cheating, etc. Nixon's secret White House tapes reveal that Nixon disliked controls, never expecting them to extinguish inflation but...

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A short history of the political economy of Brexit

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2022

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Trade in small arms and light weapons : are embargoes effective?

Baronchelli, Adelaide; Caruso, Raul; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2022

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McCarthyism, Media, and Political Repression : Evidence from Hollywood

Tan, Hui Ren; Wang, Tianyi - 2024

We study a far-reaching episode of demagoguery in American history. From the late 1940s to 1950s, anti-communist hysteria led by Senator Joseph McCarthy and others gripped the nation. Hundreds of professionals in Hollywood were accused of having ties with the communist. We show that these...

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Pricing the priceless : a history of environmental economics

Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2024

While large literatures have separately examined the history of the environmental movement, government planning, and modern economics, Pricing the Priceless triangulates on all three. Offering the first book-length study of the history of modern environmental economics, it uncovers the unlikely...

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The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country : Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - 2024

The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly understood in developing ones despite the importance of these countries as immigrant destinations. We address this shortcoming by studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during...

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Oman's transformation after 1970

Peterson, John - 2024

"Oman's 1970 coup launched a new political and economic structure that was created by and for Sultan Qaboos. The initially haphazard construction matured into a durable structure that continues under Sultan Haitham. This work details the early construction of the Qabusid state in the...

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Sozial. Demokratisch. Engagiert. : 100 Jahre Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

Fritsche, Christiane; Müller, Stefan; Owoko, Marie … - 2024

Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Solidarität - diesen Grundwerten der Sozialen Demokratie ist die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung seit ihrer Gründung verpflichtet. Das Buch lädt ein zu einer Reise durch 100 Jahre Stiftungsgeschichte: Es erzählt von den Anfängen der Studienförderung in den...

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Organized crime and American power : a history

Woodiwiss, Michael - 2024 - Second edition

"Popular histories of organized crime in the United States often look to the "Mafia" and the sons of early twentieth-century immigrants--such as Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Meyer Lansky--for their origins. In this second edition of Organized Crime and American Power, Michael Woodiwiss...

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75 Jahre Finanzen für unsere Demokratie - 75 Jahre Bundesministerium der Finanzen

2024

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Estimating the Effects of Political Pressure on the Fed : A Narrative Approach with New Data

Drechsel, Thomas - 2024

This paper combines new data and a narrative approach to identify shocks to political pressure on the Federal Reserve. From archival records, I build a data set of personal interactions between U.S. Presidents and Fed officials between 1933 and 2016. Since personal interactions do not...

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Interest Groups, Ideology, and Indirect Lobbying : The Rise of Private Health Insurance In the United States

Alsan, Marcella; Neberai, Yousra; Ye, Xingyou - 2024

This study examines the rise of private health insurance in the United States in the post- World War II era. We investigate the role of the American Medical Association (AMA) which financed a campaign against National Health Insurance that was directed by the country's first political public...

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Sustainable Development and Creative Destruction : Economic Opportunities and Challenges in Eastern Europe

2024

1. Capitalist culture of Eastern Europe -- 2. Money and the business cycle of the East -- 3. Geography matters. The past still "works" through institutions -- 4. Economic territorialisation in the East -- 5. Social harmony with variable geometry -- 6. Social tribute paid to the past -- 7. Nature...

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History of ancient national economy in Middle East Asia

Sinha, R. N. - 2024

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Northern Ontario in historical statistics, 1871-2021 : expansion, growth, and decline in a hinterland-colonial region

Leadbeater, David; Marcuccio, Pat; Faiella, Charlene; … - 2024

"Although deeply experienced by Indigenous peoples, the settler-colonial structure of Northern Ontario's development plays little explicit analytical role in official government discussions and policy. This "moose in the room"--hinterland-colonial conditions--deserves much greater attention....

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Freiheit : Erinnerungen 1954-2021

Merkel, Angela; Baumann, Beate - 2024

16 Jahre trug Angela Merkel die Regierungsverantwortung für Deutschland, führte das Land durch zahlreiche Krisen und prägte mit ihrem Handeln und ihrer Haltung die deutsche und internationale Politik und Gesellschaft. Doch natürlich wurde Angela Merkel nicht als Kanzlerin geboren. In ihren...

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Surviving Andersonville : The Benefits of Social Networks in Pow Camps

Costa, Dora L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2021

Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At Andersonville the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent. How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent data sets we find that friends had a statistically significant...

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Surviving Andersonville : The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps

Costa, Dora L. - 2005

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A century of the American woman voter : sex gaps in political participation, preferences, and partisanship since women's enfranchisement

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Shenhav, Na'ama - 2020

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A century of the American woman voter : sex gaps in political participation, preferences, and partisanship since women's enfranchisement

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Shenhav, Na'ama - 2020

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A Century of the American Woman Voter : Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women's Enfranchisement

Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Shenhav, Na'ama - 2021

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A Century of the American Woman Voter : Sex Gaps in Political Participation, Preferences, and Partisanship Since Women’s Enfranchisement

Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2020

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The quiet revolution that transformed women's employment, education, and family

Goldin, Claudia - 2006

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The quiet revolution that transformed women's employment, education, and family

Goldin, Claudia - 2006

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The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women'S Employment, Education, and Family

Goldin, Claudia - 2021

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The Quiet Revolution that Transformed Women's Employment, Education, and Family

Goldin, Claudia - 2006

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Ukraine: 30 years on the European path

Yakymenko, Yuriy - 2021

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Thirty years of challenge

2021

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Socialism : The Failed Idea That Never Dies

Niemietz, Kristian Peter - 2021

Socialism is popular in the UK – not just among students, but also among people in their 30s and 40s. This is confirmed by survey after survey. Surveys also show that support for socialism in general terms is matched by support for a broad range of individual policies that could reasonably be...

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Socialism : the failed idea that never dies

Niemietz, Kristian - 2019

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Socialism : the failed idea that never dies

Niemietz, Kristian - 2019

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Proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALWs) in the North West Geopolitical Zone of Nigeria : An Overview

Yusuf, Abubakar - 2021

The paper relied on content analysis to examine the nature, dynamics and drivers of small arms and light weapons proliferation in North West Nigeria. It argued that proliferation of SALWs undermines human security, fuels violent crimes and terrorist activities. It argued that the factors that...

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50 Jahre Städtebauförderung in Hamburg : Dokumentation der Fachveranstaltung am 24. Juni 2021

2021

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50 Jahre Städtebauförderung in Hamburg : Dokumentation der Fachveranstaltung am 24. Juni 2021

2021

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A note on long-run persistence of public health outcomes in pandemics

Lin, Peter Zhixian; Meissner, Christopher M. - 2020

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A note on long-run persistence of public health outcomes in pandemics

Lin, Peter Zhixian; Meissner, Christopher M. - 2020

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A Note on Long-Run Persistence of Public Health Outcomes in Pandemics

Lin, Zhixian - 2020

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A Note on Long-Run Persistence of Public Health Outcomes in Pandemics

Lin, Peter Zhixian - 2020

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The History of the Committee of the Regions (1994-2019) : 25 years of cities and regions furthering European integration

2020

Created in 1994 following the signing of the Maastricht Treaty, the European Committee of the Regions is the EU's assembly of 350 regional and local representatives from all 28 Member States, representing over 507 million Europeans. Its mission is to involve regional and local authorities and...

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The history of the Committee of the Regions : 25 years of cities and regions furthering European integration

Wassenberg, Birte - 2020

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Strong winds and widow makers : workers, nature, and environmental conflict in Pacific Northwest timber country

Beda, Steven C. - 2023

"Often cast as villains in the Northwest's environmental battles, timber workers in fact have a connection to the forest that goes far beyond jobs and economic issues. Steven C. Beda explores the complex true story of how and why timber- working communities have concerned themselves with the...

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