The democratisation of the GDR after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 has had different effects on opponents and supporters of the GDR’s political regime. Former opponents – protesters for the Peaceful Revolution in 1989 and 1990 – are significantly happier with the new democratic system and the free-market economy after the fall of the Berlin Wall than they were before. Former supporters of the old system, however, report lower life satisfaction after the fall of the Wall. This is shown by a recent study by ZEW Mannheim.
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Supply Network Formation and Fragility
Speaker: Benjamin Golub (Northwestern University, Evanston, USA)
Mental Health and Abortions Among Young Women Time-Varying Unobserved Heterogeneity, Health Behaviors, and Risky Decisions
Speaker: Bettina Siflinger (Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
Like Mother, like Child? The Rise of Women’s Intergenerational Income Persistence in Sweden and the United States
Speaker: Martin Nyborn (Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala, Sweden)
Robots, Career Cost, and Fertility Timing
Speaker: Claudio Costanzo (Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium)
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