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Sascha O. Becker Profile picture
@essobecker
Jul 17, 2020 • 11 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
(1/N) Pleasure to edit the brand-new

JDC UNHCR @Refugees @WorldBank Quarterly Digest on

"Long-Term Consequences of Forced Displacement"
doi.org/10.47053/jdc.0…

Part I: Intro

Part II: Summaries of papers by the amazing @zsarzin

highlighting three (selective) salient themes
(2/N)
Theme 1: Long-Term Impact of Refugees on Innovation and Technological Progress

Theme 2: Agglomeration Effects and Infrastructure Investments

Theme 3: Impact on Refugee Preferences
(3/N) Theme 1 papers (summarized by @zsarzin):

Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia
by @HornungErik
American Economic Review, Volume 104, Issue 1 (2014), Pages 84–122
dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.10…
(4/N)
German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention
by @PMoserEcon, @AlesVoena and Fabian Waldinger
American Economic Review, Volume 104, Issue 10 (2014), Pages 3222–3255
dx.doi.org/10.1257/aer.10…
(5/N)
Displacement and Development: Long Term Impacts of the Partition of India
by Prashant Bharadwaj and Rinchan Ali Mirza
Explorations in Economic History, Volume 73 (2019)
doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.…
(6/N)
Mass Refugee Inflow and Long-run Prosperity: Lessons from the Greek Population Resettlement
by @ElieMurard and @sosakalli
cream-migration.org/publ_uploads/C…
(7/N)
Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia
@dany_bahar, @CemOzguzel, Andreas Hauptmann, and Hillel Rapoport
IZA Discussion Paper Series, No. 12412 (2019)
iza.org/publications/d…
(8/N) Theme 2 papers summarized by @zsarzin:

The Development Push of Refugees: Evidence from Tanzania
@jfmaystadt and Gilles Duranton
Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 19, Issue 2 (2019), Pages 299–334
doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lb…
(9/N)
Market Size and Spatial Growth – Evidence from Germany’s Post-War Population Expulsions
Michael Peters @Yale
mipeters.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/6/…
(10/N) Theme 3 paper summarized by @zsarzin:

Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers
by S. Becker, Irena Grosfeld, Pauline Grosjean, Nico Voigtländer, @ezhuravskaya
aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
(END) I like the initiative by the JDC's @bgillsater and Domenico Tabasso to summarize academic research for policy-makers.

Looking forward to future editions of the JDC Quarterly Digest and what topics they will cover!

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Oct 31, 2022
31 October. Reformation Day.

How did Martin Luther, a little-known professor at a provincial university (founded in 1502), manage to convince large parts of Germany (and Europe) to turn away from the Catholic Church? 🧵(1/N)
(2/N) In Becker/Hsiao/Pfaff/Rubin, we look at Luther's
a. correspondence
b. travels
c. his students at Wittenberg
>before< 1522 when the first city became Protestant, to describe his multiplex network(s).
(3/N) We also look at the trade network in the Holy Roman Empire (HRE).

Luther's message could reach cities across the HRE either through his personal network(s) or by word-of-mouth through the trade network, or by a combination of both.
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Feb 23, 2021
New working paper

Persecution and Escape:
Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany

with Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand, and Fabian Waldinger

A short summary (1/N)

pdf: …-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/RePEc/ajr/sodw…
(2/N) Academics of Jewish origin in Weimar Germany were some of the greatest scientific luminaries of the first half of the 20th century.

For example, Nobel Laureates such as Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger, and Max Born shaped modern physics.
(3/N) The National Socialist Party (NSDAP) seized power on January 30, 1933.

On April 7, 1933, the Nazi government started to dismiss academics of Jewish descent from their positions.

The University of Berlin at the time:
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Aug 5, 2020
Great initiative. I am First-Gen; attended same high school as @PMoserEcon in the deep countryside; my dad left school at age 14, my mum at age 16; dad worked for German rail; mother housewife; ended up at @UniBonn by accident because grandmother lived there (--> free housing).
Started studying maths and physics to become a teacher, following dad's advice: "become a teacher; public sector; safe job".
Met Mathias Hoffmann (@UZH_en) in maths lectures; his passion for Economics made me attend Econ lectures and that's how I ended up studying Economics.
Most important academic in my life was Reinhard Selten @NobelPrize @UniBonn. Amazing person. Humble. Wise. During UG studies wanted to do exchange year abroad, either @UCBerkeley or @ENSAEparis.
Selten: "Swim against the current, go to @ENSAEparis."
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Mar 12, 2020
German division and reunification and the “effects” of Communism

Some caveats from f/c JEP paper with @LukasMergele & Ludger Woessmann @ifo_Education

warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econom…

Issue #1: The GDR can be spotted before it even existed. (1/13)
(2/13) Further economic outcomes
(3/13) Political preferences
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Jan 28, 2020
Our @voxeu column on forthcoming AER paper

"Forced Migration and Human Capital:
Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers"

with I.Grosfeld, P.Grosjean, N.Voigtländer, @ezhuravskaya

voxeu.org/article/silver…

@MonashBusiness @cage_warwick
@voxeu @ezhuravskaya @MonashBusiness @cage_warwick At the end of WWII, the Polish borders were redrawn, resulting in large-scale forced migration. Poles from Kresy had to move westwards, mostly into formerly German Western Territories (WT), but also to Central Poland. Image
@voxeu @ezhuravskaya @MonashBusiness @cage_warwick The expellees from Kresy were forced to leave behind most of their family possessions and were only allowed to take a small share of their belongings to their new homes. Image
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Jun 28, 2019
.@cage_warwick Economic History workshop today kicking off with Steve Broadberry: “Accounting for the Wealth of Nations: Recent Developments in Historical National Accounting” Image
1) Great Divergence had late medieval origins (Maddison right)
2) Regional variation within both continents
3) Little Divergence within Europe: reversal of fortunes between North Sea Area and Mediterranean Europe
4) Little Divergence within Asia: Japan overtaking China and India
Prsentation follows on from earlier work summarized here:

nuffield.ox.ac.uk/users/Broadber…
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