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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| author | Acemoglu, Daron Hassan, Tarek A. Robinson, James A. |
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| description | 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 administrative districts (oblasts) where the Holocaust had the largest impact have worse economic and political outcomes since the collapse of the Soviet Union. We provide evidence that the lasting impact of the Holocaust may be attributable to a permanent change it induced in the social structure across different regions
of Russia. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/617962022-09-28T13:40:11Z Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia Acemoglu, Daron Hassan, Tarek A. Robinson, James A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Acemoglu, Daron Acemoglu, Daron 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 administrative districts (oblasts) where the Holocaust had the largest impact have worse economic and political outcomes since the collapse of the Soviet Union. We provide evidence that the lasting impact of the Holocaust may be attributable to a permanent change it induced in the social structure across different regions of Russia. William A. Ackman Fund for Holocaust Studies Warburg Foundation 2011-03-24T19:29:27Z 2011-03-24T19:29:27Z 2010-08 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0033-5533 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61796 Acemoglu, Daron, Tarek A. Hassan, and James A. Robinson. "Social structure and development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia." Quarterly Journal of Economics (2011) 126(2): 895-946. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0908-7491 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjr018 Quarterly Journal of Economics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Oxford University Press MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Acemoglu, Daron Hassan, Tarek A. Robinson, James A. Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia |
| title | Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia |
| title_full | Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia |
| title_fullStr | Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia |
| title_short | Social Structure and Development: A Legacy of the Holocaust in Russia |
| title_sort | social structure and development a legacy of the holocaust in russia |
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