Replication data for: Persistent Antimarket Culture: A Legacy of the Pale of Settlement after the Holocaust

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Irena Grosfeld; Alexander Rodnyansky; Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

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Project Citation:

Grosfeld, Irena, Rodnyansky, Alexander, and Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina. Replication data for: Persistent Antimarket Culture: A Legacy of the Pale of Settlement after the Holocaust. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E114828V1

Project Description

Summary: We estimate long-term effects of Jewish presence in Europe before World War II, using discontinuity at the border of the "Pale of Settlement" area where Jews were allowed to live in the Russian Empire. Current residents of the Pale have lower support for market, and are less entrepreneurial but more trusting compared to those outside the Pale. We suggest a mechanism and test for it: anti-Semitism generated persistent antimarket culture and trust among non-Jews. Consistent with this mechanism, antimarket attitudes and trust decrease with distance to pogroms controlling for historical Jewish presence. Self-identification and cohesion of majority depends on the presence of minority.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      J11 Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
      N33 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: Pre-1913
      N34 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913-
      N43 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: Pre-1913
      N44 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: 1913-
      P10 Capitalist Systems: General
      Z12 Cultural Economics: Religion

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