We provide empirical evidence that the experience of a socialist regime leads to a lack of self-reliance by comparing East and West Germans...

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in...

We identify the causal effect of trade-integration with China and Eastern Europe on voting in Germany from 1987 to 2009. Looking at the entire...

It is often the case that an endogenous treatment variable causally affects an intermediate variable that in turn causally affects a final...

The internet is the new mass medium that affects many aspects of everyday life. Empirical evidence during the initial phase of the internet...

We establish a causal role for banking access in the spread of the Industrial Revolution over the period 1817–1881 by exploiting unique...

We exploit Germany’s reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in...

This paper analyses the effects on voting behavior of information disseminated over the Internet. We address endogeneity in Internet...

We investigate economic causes of the rising support of populist parties in industrialised countries. Looking at Germany, we find that...