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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP8316
	DP8316 Persistent anti-market culture: A legacy of the Pale of Settlement and of the Holocaust
	Irena Grosfeld; Ekaterina Zhuravskaya; Alexander Rodnyansky
发表日期	2011-04-03
出版年	2011
语种	英语
摘要	We investigate the long-term effects of the important presence of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Second World War and their disappearance during the Holocaust. The Pale of Settlement, the area which Jewish residents were confined to in the Russian Empire, is used as a source of exogenous variation in the size of the Jewish population before the Second World War. Based on election and survey data, we find that current residents of the Pale, compared to their counterparts outside the Pale, vote more for socialist anti-market parties, have lower support for the market economy and democracy, are less engaged in entrepreneurship, but exhibit higher levels of trust. At the same time, the Pale has no lasting effects on average consumption, income, and education levels. Regression discontinuity at the Pale border helps identification. We show that the effect of the Pale is related to the former presence of Jews rather than the inflow of new migrant population into the formerly-Jewish areas. We suggest a possible mechanism and present evidence consistent with it: the non-Jewish population, at the time when two groups lived together side-by-side, developed a persistent anti-market culture and bonding trust, rooted in ethnic hatred towards Jews. We show that, consistent with the mechanism, current residents of towns closer to places of pogroms exhibit higher trust and anti-market attitudes even controlling for the historical share of Jews in the population and the Pale.
主题	Development Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Anti-market Bonding trust Holocaust Pale of settlement Persistent culture Pogrom
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp8316
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537198
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Irena Grosfeld,Ekaterina Zhuravskaya,Alexander Rodnyansky. DP8316 Persistent anti-market culture: A legacy of the Pale of Settlement and of the Holocaust. 2011.