Good Bye Lenin Revisited: East-West Preferences Three Decades after German Reunification

In this paper, we document that living under Communism versus Capitalism has lasting effects on preferences for a strong government. Relying on the natural experiment of German reunification and extending the analysis of Alesina and Fuchs-Schündeln (2007), we show that East Germans still have strong...

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Autores principales: Bondar, Mariia, Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: De Gruyter 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10005892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36916964
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ger-2022-0042
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description In this paper, we document that living under Communism versus Capitalism has lasting effects on preferences for a strong government. Relying on the natural experiment of German reunification and extending the analysis of Alesina and Fuchs-Schündeln (2007), we show that East Germans still have stronger preferences for redistribution than West Germans 27 years after reunification. While convergence of preferences occurs, the speed of convergence decreases significantly over time. Evidence from cohorts born after German reunification points towards significant intergenerational transmission of preferences.
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spelling pubmed-100058922023-03-11 Good Bye Lenin Revisited: East-West Preferences Three Decades after German Reunification Bondar, Mariia Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola Ger Econ Rev Original Article In this paper, we document that living under Communism versus Capitalism has lasting effects on preferences for a strong government. Relying on the natural experiment of German reunification and extending the analysis of Alesina and Fuchs-Schündeln (2007), we show that East Germans still have stronger preferences for redistribution than West Germans 27 years after reunification. While convergence of preferences occurs, the speed of convergence decreases significantly over time. Evidence from cohorts born after German reunification points towards significant intergenerational transmission of preferences. De Gruyter 2023-02-28 2023-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC10005892/ /pubmed/36916964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ger-2022-0042 Text en © 2023 the author(s), published by De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Good Bye Lenin Revisited: East-West Preferences Three Decades after German Reunification
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title_full Good Bye Lenin Revisited: East-West Preferences Three Decades after German Reunification
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title_full_unstemmed Good Bye Lenin Revisited: East-West Preferences Three Decades after German Reunification
title_short Good Bye Lenin Revisited: East-West Preferences Three Decades after German Reunification
title_sort good bye lenin revisited: east-west preferences three decades after german reunification
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10005892/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36916964
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ger-2022-0042
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