Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/267327 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10095
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This influential literature marks a promising development but has drawn criticism. We discuss two prominent examples that ground the rise of the Nazi Party in distant historical roots. Several econometric, analytical, and historical errors undermine the papers' contention that deeply rooted culture and social capital fueled the Nazi rise. The broader lesson is that research of this type works best when it incorporates careful econometrics, serious consideration of underlying mechanisms (including formal theory), and, most important, scrupulous attention to history and to the limitations of historical data.
Subjects: 
historical persistence
medieval pogroms
social capital
culture
networks
Nazism
voting behavior
anti-Semitism
political parties
religion
empirical economics
data based estimates
econometrics
JEL: 
C18
D71
D72
D85
D91
L14
N01
N13
N14
Z10
Z12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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