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The Persistent Effect of Gender Division of Labour: African American Women After Slavery I investigate whether gender divison of labour during slavery has contributed to the formation of different gender roles within the African American population. Alesina, Giuliano and Nunn (2013) show that gender division of labour due to the...

The Persistent Effect of Gender Division of Labour: African American Women After Slavery I investigate whether gender divison of labour during slavery has contributed to the formation of different gender roles within the African American population. Alesina, Giuliano and Nunn (2013) show that gender division of labour due to the...

Waves of optimism: house price history, biased expectations and credit cycles Using the Michigan Survey of Consumers, I show that American households have heterogeneous expectations about the future of house prices, which largely depend on the history of past house price realisations in the local area of residence. House price...

Moritz Schularick will present his recent paper “Going to Extremes: Politics after Financial Crisis, 1870-2014” (joint work with Manuel Funke and Christoph Trebesch) at the conference “Elections, Policymaking, and Economic Uncertainty,” jointly organized by the Becker Friedman Institute and the Hoover Institution. About the conference The democratic decision-making process is often...

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This talk will be the premiere presentation of Moritz Schularick’s (Professor at Bonn Graduate School of Economics)  recent study on the development of all asset returns during the 20th century in all industrial countries. In view of the current extremely low interest rates, his view on historical episodes with extraordinary low...