Bonn Macrohistory Webinar – Nadia Zhuravleva (University of Bonn). Title : “How Bad Is Labor Market Concentration?: Evidence From Soviet (Urban) Satellites”.

How Bad Is Labor Market Concentration? : Evidence From Soviet (Urban) Satellites. “There is a debate about the labor market concentration being behind the anemic development of US wages over the past decades. The absence of exogenous variations for causal inference complicates this debate. Here, data from other countries can...

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Bonn Macrohistory Webinar – Anne Sofie Beck Knudsen (Harvard University). Topic : “Those Who Stayed: Selection and Cultural Change in the Age of Mass Migration”.

Those Who Stayed: Selection and Cultural Change in the Age of Mass Migration This paper studies the cultural causes and consequences of mass emigration from Scandinavia in the 19th century. I test the hypothesis that people with individualistic traits were more likely to emigrate, because they faced lower costs of...

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Bonn Macrohistory Webinar – Bruno Caprettini (University of Zurich). Topic : “The Electoral Impact of Wealth Redistribution: Evidence from the Italian Land Reform (with Lorenzo Casaburi and Miriam Venturini)”.

The Electoral Impact of Wealth Redistribution: Evidence from the Italian Land Reform (with Lorenzo Casaburi and Miriam Venturini) Governments often implement large-scale redistribution policies to gain political support. However, little is known on whether such policies generate sizable gains, whether these gains are persistent, and why. We study the political...

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Bonn Macrohistory Webinar – Leonard Kukic (Charles III University of Madrid). Topic : “The Last Yugoslavs: Ethnic Diversity and National Identity”.

The Last Yugoslavs: Ethnic Diversity and National Identity Nation-building is often proposed as a device for integration in ethnically divided societies. The determinants of national sentiment, however, remain imperfectly understood. This paper analyses the role of interethnic contact in the process of nation formation within the unique historical setting of...

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Bonn Macrohistory Webinar – Kai Gehring (University of Zurich). Title : “The origins of common identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine”.

The origins of common identity: Evidence from Alsace-Lorraine We study how more negative historical exposure to the actions of nation-states – like war, occupation, and repression – affects the formation of regional identity. The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine allows us to implement a geographical regression...

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