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Banking on a corporate rebrand

Jaremski, Matthew; Mitchener, Kris; Rieder, Kilian - 2026

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Banking on a corporate rebrand

Jaremski, Matthew; Mitchener, Kris; Rieder, Kilian - 2026

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"Don't mention the war" : the failure of historical analogies in geopolitical decision-making

Mouritzen, Hans - 2025

As seldom before, the current war in Ukraine has seen the use of World War II analogies by belligerents and also some Western non-belligerents. They thereby follow in the footsteps of such political leaders as Anthony Eden, Margaret Thatcher, Joseph Stalin, or John F. Kennedy. Indeed, statesmen...

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"Don't mention the war": The failure of historical analogies in geopolitical decision-making

Mouritzen, Hans - 2025

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Political breakthroughs in the trenches

Grosjean, Pauline; Jha, Saumitra; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2025

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Vanguard: Black veterans and civil rights after World War I

Ang, Desmond; Chinoy, Sahil - 2026

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Vanguard : Black Veterans and Civil Rights after World War I

Ang, Desmond; Chinoy, Sahil - 2025

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Political breakthroughs in the trenches

Grosjean, Pauline; Jha, Saumitra; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2025

We show how exposure to partisan peers, under conditions requiring high stakes cooperation, can trigger the breakthrough of novel political beliefs. We exploit the largescale, exogenous assignment of soldiers from each of 34,947 French municipalities into line infantry regiments during World War...

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Never Enough : Dynamic Status Incentives in Organizations

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Rawcliffe, Ewan; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2026

We study the ability of a firm to elicit repeated effort from workers by creating a "rat race" of hierarchical status-based incentives. We examine performance using data on over 5,000 German air force pilots during World War II. Pilots' effort is hard to monitor; motivation is key to success....

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Blockading Britain and Germany during World War 1 : preparations, conduct and consequence of economic warfare

Broadberry, Stephen N.; Vonyó, Tamás - 2025

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Skill Formation, Child Labor, and the Schooling Consequences of the World War I Agricultural Boom

Jaworski, Taylor; Kitchens, Carl T.; Rodgers, Luke P. - 2026

We examine how the World War I agricultural commodity price boom affected human capital accumulation during the early decades of the high school movement in the United States. First, based on newly collected county-level enrollment data, we show that enrollment and average daily attendance fell...

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Morts Pour la France : a database of French fatalities of the Great War

Gay, Victor; Grosjean, Pauline - 2023

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Morts pour la france : a database of french fatalities of the great war

Gay, Victor; Grosjean, Pauline - 2023

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American workers' experience with socialism during the World Wars

Pencavel, John H. - 2025

The operation of American labor markets during the two World Wars is described and the well-being of civilian workers during those years is assessed. These were periods when decentralized capitalism was replaced with a system of centralized direction and control that some would call socialism....

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The long-run impacts of public industrial investment on local development and economic mobility : evidence from World War II

Garin, Andrew; Rothbaum, Jonathan - 2025

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The long-run impacts of public industrial investment on local development and economic mobility : evidence from World War II

Garin, Andrew; Rothbaum, Jonathan - 2024

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The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility : Evidence from World War II

Garin, Andrew; Rothbaum, Jonathan L. - 2024

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Political trenches: war, partisanship, and polarization

Grosjean, Pauline; Jha, Saumitra; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2024

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Political trenches : war, partisanship, and polarization

Grosjean, Pauline - 2023

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The intergenerational health effects of forced displacement : Japanese American incarceration during WWII

Grossman, Daniel; Khalil, Umair; Panza, Laura - 2025

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The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement : Japanese American Incarceration during WWII

Grossman, Daniel; Khalil, Umair; Panza, Laura - 2023

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The intergenerational health effects of forced displacement: japanese american incarceration during WWII

Grossman, Daniel; Khalil, Umair; Panza, Laura - 2023

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The impact of World War II Army service on income and mobility in the 1960s by ethnoracial group

Barrera, Sergio; Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price; … - 2025

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The impact of World War II army service on income and mobility in the 1960s by ethnoracial group

Barrera, Sergio; Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price; … - 2025

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The Impact of World War II Army Service on Income and Mobility in the 1960s by Ethnoracial Group

Barrera, Sergio; Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price; … - 2025

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Blockading britain and germany during World War 1 : preparations, conduct and consequences of economic warfare

Broadberry, Stephen N.; Vonyó, Tamás - 2025

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Pensions and participation : evidence from World War II veterans in Australia

Rodgers, David; Kudrna, George; Woodland, Alan D. - 2025

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Pensions and participation : evidence from World War II veterans in Australia

Rodgers, David - 2021

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From taxation to fighting for the nation : historical fiscal capacity and military draft evasion during WWI

Bagnato, Luca - 2024 - Revised version, March 2024

Do strong states affect the culture and actions of their citizens in a persistent way? And if so, can the capacity to tax, by itself, drive this effect? I study how the historical capacity of a state to collect taxes affects the decision of citizens to evade the mandatory military draft. I look...

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From taxation to fighting for the nation: Historical fiscal capacity and military draft evasion during WWI

Bagnato, Luca - 2024

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From taxation to fighting for the nation: Historical fiscal capacity and military draft evasion during WWI

Bagnato, Luca - 2022

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From taxation to fighting for the nation : historical fiscal capacity and military draft evasion during WWI

Bagnato, Luca - 2022

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The impacts of the gender imbalance on the marriage market : evidence from World War II in Japan

Ogasawara, Kota; Igarashi, Erika - 2025

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H1N1 and WW1 : the Spanish flu and the great war

Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2024

World War 1 exacerbated the cost of the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in two ways. First, it facilitated the spread the flu virus through the movement of clusters of infected soldiers and sailors. Second, it constrained public health measures that would have reduced mortality (as during the...

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H1N1 and WW1: The Spanish flu and the great war

Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2024

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‘Invest!' : Liberty Bonds and Stock Ownership over the Twentieth Century

Brunet, Gillian; Hilt, Eric; Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2025

The Liberty Bond drives of World War I were nation-wide interventions aimed at increasing financial literacy and associating bond ownership with patriotism. Using data from the first year of the Survey of Consumer Finances, 1947, through 1971, we investigate whether exposure to the drives shaped...

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"Making war to war" or how to train elites about European economic ideas : Keynes' articles published in L'Europe Nouvelle during the interwar period

Cot, Annie L.; Dal Pont Legrand, Muriel - 2024

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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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The European art market and the First World War : art, capital, and the decline of the collecting class, 1910-1925

Alvi, Maddalena - 2025

"The outbreak of the First World War shattered the European art market. In its place, Maddalena Alvi argues, can be found the origins of a recognisably modern market of nationalised spheres driven by capitalist investment and speculation, yet open to wider social strata." - Provided by publisher

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The making of consumer patriotism : mobilizing Christmas in Sweden during the Second World War

Glover, Nikolas; Arnberg, Klara; Cottrell-Sundevall, Fia - 2024

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Political trenches: war, partisanship, and polarization

Grosjean, Pauline; Jha, Saumitra; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2024

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Political trenches : war, partisanship, and polarization

Grosjean, Pauline - 2023

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Martyrs, Morale, and Militarism : The Political Impact of Devastation and Slaughter

Inoue, Shizuka; Weinstein, David E.; Yamagishi, Atsushi - 2025

Opinion is sharply divided about whether the bombing of an enemy's civilian targets and the killing of their combatants results in an adversary's population becoming pacifist or pro-military. Identification is difficult because natural experiments are rare, and effects may be heterogeneous. For...

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Martyrs, morale, and militarism : the political impact of devastation and slaughter

Inoue, Shizuka; Weinstein, David E.; Yamagishi, Atsushi - 2025

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Did the 1918 influenza pandemic cause a 1920 baby boom? Demographic evidence from neutral Europe

Gaddy, Hampton; Ingholt, Mathias Mølbak - 2024

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Waging war and building peace : mobilising industry in Wales, 1934-1947

Gooberman, Leon - 2025

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Shutting Down Japantown : The Effects of WWII Internment on Japanese American Enclaves

Saavedra, Martin H.; Twinam, Tate - 2025

During World War II, the U.S. government incarcerated all West Coast Japanese Americans in internment camps. We ask how this forced displacement affected Japanese American enclaves. Using the recently digitized 1940 and 1950 full-count censuses, we measure changes in the racial composition of...

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Imperial wars and the violence of hunger: remembering and forgetting the Great Persian Famine 1917–1919

Edalati, Zahra; Imani, Majid - 2024

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The effect of World War II spending and army service on the lifespan of the Black population

Lleras-Muney, Adriana; Morgan, Tommy; Price, Joseph; … - 2025

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Exposure to war and its labor market consequences over the life cycle

Braun, Sebastian; Stuhler, Jan - 2023

With 70 million dead, World War II remains the most devastating conflict in history. Of the survivors, millions were displaced, returned maimed from the battlefield, or spent years in captivity. We examine the impact of such wartime experiences on labor market careers and show that they often...

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Early-Life Income Shocks and Old-Age Mortality : Evidence from World War I Veterans’ Bonus

NoghaniBehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason M. - 2023

In 1936, the US government enacted the later-known Bonus Act, which triggered cash transfers to about 3 million veterans who had served in World War I. This paper studies the long-run benefits of veterans’ bonus receipt on their children’s old-age longevity. We employ data from Social...

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The World War II bond campaign

Samuel, Lawrence R. - 2025

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When missions fail : lessons in "high technology" from post-war Britain

Kelsey, Tom - 2023

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Did War Mobilization Cause Aggregate and Regional Growth?

Jaworski, Taylor; Yang, Dongkyu - 2025

The participation of the United States in World War II led to a substantial mobilization of domestic resources to produce the materiel used on the battlefields of Europe and in the Pacific. We produce new estimates for the impact of war mobilization on long-run economic growth and regional...

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Imperial Wars in the Modern Era : The Struggling for Territory

Ransom, Roger L.; McKenzie, Jared David - 2025

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A New World to Explore -- Chapter 3. The Spanish Empire -- Chapter 4. The Spanish Armada -- Chapter 5. The East India Company and the British Empire -- Chapter 6. The American Revolution -- Chapter 7. The Napoleonic Wars -- Chapter 8. The Mexican-American...

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All against Hollywood : policies in defence of national cinematography in European countries after World War I

Manetti, Daniela - 2023

During the First World War, the film industry of the major European countries experienced a lasting crisis, which necessitated significant restructuring and prompted appeals for state intervention to counterbalance the invasion of American films. As the extent of this crisis did not affect all...

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The last free traders? : interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Zwart, Pim de; Lampe, Markus - 2023

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The economics of civilian victimization : evidence from World War II Italy

Bertazzini, Mattia; Giorcelli, Michela - 2025

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The Economics of Civilian Victimization : Evidence from World War II Italy

Bertazzini, Mattia; Giorcelli, Michela - 2022

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War Mobilization and Economic Development : World War II and Structural Transformation in India

Parvathaneni, Aneesha; Yang, Dean - 2024

Can temporary wartime mobilization change the long-run development trajectory of an economy? We study how mobilization for World War II in colonial India influenced its subsequent development. From 1939 to 1945, the British colonial government purchased massive amounts of war materiel within...

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Loose cannons : war veterans and the erosion of democracy in Weimar Germany

Koenig, Christoph - 2023

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Loose cannons : war veterans and the erosion of democracy in Weimar Germany

Koenig, Christoph - 2020 - This version: July 28, 2020

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Loose cannons : War veterans and the erosion of Democracy in Weimar Germany

Koenig, Christoph - 2015

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Wars and the labor market outcomes of minorities in the U.S.

Ferrara, Andreas - 2023

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Wars and the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities in the U.S

Ferrara, Andreas - 2023

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Who Benefited from World War II Service and the GI Bill? New Evidence on Heterogeneous Effects for US Veterans

Collins, William J.; Zimran, Ariell - 2024

We study the impacts of WWII service and access to GI Bill benefits on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals of various ethnic and racial groups. We address selection into military service directly by linking veterans and nonveterans from 1950's census records to the...

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Economic warfare : lessons from two world wars

Harrison, Mark - 2023 - First draft: 5 May 2023. This version 8 September 2023.

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Economic warfare : lessons from two world wars

Harrison, Mark - 2023

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Did World War II deaths help prevent deaths from COVID-19?

Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin; Kolchin, Vladimir - 2024

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Pecuniary Incentives to Work in the U.S. During World War Ii

Mulligan, Casey B. - 2022

It is argued that changes in workers' budget sets cannot explain the dramatic increases in" civilian work in the U.S. during World War II. Although money wages grew during the period wartime after-tax real wages were lower than either before or after the war. Evidence from the" 1940's also...

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Pecuniary Incentives to Work in the U.S. during World War II

Mulligan, Casey B. - 1997

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Discrimination, migration, and economic outcomes : evidence from World War I

Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price - 2024

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Discrimination, migration, and economic outcomes : evidence from World War I

Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price - 2020

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Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes : Evidence from World War I

Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price - 2022

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Discrimination, migration, and economic outcomes : evidence from World War I

Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price - 2020

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Neighborhood Effects : Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel - 2024

We use the German bombing of London during the Second World War as an exogenous source of variation to provide evidence on neighborhood effects. We construct a newly-digitized dataset at the level of individual buildings on wartime destruction, property values, and socioeconomic composition in...

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