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

IF 1.2 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

German Economic Review Pub Date : 2023-02-28 DOI:10.1515/ger-2022-0042

Mariia Bondar, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln

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Abstract

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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再见，列宁重访:德国统一三十年后的东西方偏好。

在本文中，我们证明了生活在共产主义与资本主义制度下对强势政府的偏好有持久的影响。基于德国统一的自然实验，并扩展Alesina和fuchs - sch ndeln(2007)的分析，我们发现在统一27年后，东德人对再分配的偏好仍然比西德人更强。当偏好趋同发生时，趋同的速度会随着时间的推移而显著降低。来自两德统一后出生的人群的证据表明，偏好存在显著的代际传递。

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German Economic Review ECONOMICS-

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2.30

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9.10%

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