Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia

We document a statistical association between the severity of the persecution, displacement and mass murder of Jews by the Nazis during World War II and long-run economic and political outcomes within Russia. Cities that experienced the Holocaust most intensely have grown less, and both cities and a...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron, Hassan, Tarek A., Robinson, James A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61796
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491