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Let Bygones be Bygones? Political Regimes and Personalities in Germany
This paper investigates the influence of political regimes on personality, using the separation of Germany into the socialist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural experiment. We establish significant differences between former GDR and FRG residents regarding important attributes of personality (particularly neuroticism, conscientiousness, openness, and the locus of control). To understand the influence of the GDR's political regime on personality, we test an important channel by exploiting regional variation in the number of unofficial state-security collaborators across East German counties. Our results indicate that local surveillance intensity is an important determinant of the personality of former GDR citizens indeed. The observed significant differences in personality imply that former citizens of the GDR have economic prospects very different from former FRG citizens and help to understand behavioral differences established in the prior literature.
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Englisch
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Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Behavioral and Experimental Economics ; No. F04-V3
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Wirtschaft
Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Pannenberg, Markus
Friehe, Tim
Wedow, Michael
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Veröffentlichung
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2015
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- Konferenzbeitrag
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- Pannenberg, Markus
- Friehe, Tim
- Wedow, Michael
Time of origin
- 2015
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