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The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Values and Human Interactions 90 Years after the Fall of the Habsburg Empire

@inproceedings{Becker2010TheEI,
  title={The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Values and Human Interactions 90 Years after the Fall of the Habsburg Empire},
  author={S. Becker and Katrin Boeckh and Christa Hainz and L. Woessmann},
  year={2010}
}

S. Becker, Katrin Boeckh, +1 author L. Woessmann

Published 2010

Political Science

Do Empires affect human values and behavior long after their demise? In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone border of the Habsburg Empire have been sharing common formal institutions for 90 years now. We exploit this geographic discontinuity in a regression-discontinuity design with country fixed effects using data of individuals living inside a restricted band around the former border. We find that historical Habsburg affiliation increases current… CONTINUE READING

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