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

被引：3
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作者：
Bondar, Mariia [3 ]
Fuchs-Schuendeln, Nicola [1 ,2 ]
机构：
[1] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
[2] CEPR, Frankfurt, Germany
[3] Charles River Associates Inc, Munich, Germany
来源：
GERMAN ECONOMIC REVIEW | 2023年 / 24卷 / 01期
基金：
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词：
German reunification; preferences for redistribution; endogenous preferences; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; ATTITUDES; CULTURE;
D O I：
10.1515/ger-2022-0042
中图分类号：
F [经济];
学科分类号：
02 ;
摘要：
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-Schundeln (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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页码：97 / 119
页数：23
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