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The empire is dead, long live the empire! Long‐run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy
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Becker, Sascha O., Boeckh, Katrin, Hainz, Christa and Woessmann, Ludger (2016) The empire is dead, long live the empire! Long‐run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy. Economic Journal, 126 (590). pp. 40-74. doi:10.1111/ecoj.12220 ISSN 0013-0133.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12220
Abstract
We hypothesise that the Habsburg Empire with its well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the long-gone Habsburg border have shared common formal institutions for a century now. We use a border specification and a two-dimensional geographic regression discontinuity design to identify from individuals living within a restricted band around the former border. We find that historical Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously moved borders, geographic and pre-existing differences and interpersonal trust corroborate a genuine Habsburg effect.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Economic Journal | ||||||||
Publisher: | Blackwell | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0013-0133 | ||||||||
Official Date: | February 2016 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 126 | ||||||||
Number: | 590 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 40-74 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/ecoj.12220 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 12 August 2016 |
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