Forced displacement in history: Some recent research

SO Becker - Australian Economic History Review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not
only have contemporaneous consequences but also long‐run repercussions. This eclectic …

How to deal with the past? How collective and historical trauma psychologically reverberates in Eastern Europe

A Maercker - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Traumatic stress studies have recently addressed the issue of 'historical trauma'that well
explain the impact of collective or totalitarian trauma. The example of former communist …

The economic value of the Glass Beach: Contingent valuation and life satisfaction approaches

V Otrachshenko, E Tyurina, A Nagapetyan - Ecological Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper investigates whether people value the environmental goods created as a result
of the human-nature interaction. Using the novel face-to-face survey data collected in …

Does democracy protect the environment? The role of the Arctic Council

A Mavisakalyan, V Otrachshenko, O Popova - Climatic Change, 2023 - Springer
This paper examines the influence of democratic institutions on environmental policy
stringency and the degree to which it is affected by membership in the Arctic Council. We …

New Russian economic history

E Zhuravskaya, S Guriev, A Markevich - Journal of Economic Literature, 2024 - aeaweb.org
This survey discusses recent developments in the growing literature on the economic history
of Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using novel data and modern empirical …

Double-edged sword: persistent effects of Communist regime affiliations on well-being and preferences

V Otrachshenko, M Nikolova, O Popova - Journal of Population Economics, 2023 - Springer
During Communism, party members and their relatives were typically privileged elites in
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU). At the same time …

[HTML][HTML] Does globalization suppress social trust?

N Berggren, C Bjørnskov - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023 - Elsevier
Globalization has been on the increase during the past 50 years, and there are now signs of
a backlash. Part of the reason may be the widely held belief that globalization is harmful, not …

[HTML][HTML] Persecution, pogroms and genocide: A conceptual framework and new evidence

SO Becker, S Mukand, I Yotzov - Explorations in Economic History, 2022 - Elsevier
Persecution, pogroms, and genocide have plagued humanity for centuries, costing millions
of lives and haunting survivors. Economists and economic historians have recently made …

Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship

A Ivlevs, M Nikolova, O Popova - Small Business Economics, 2021 - Springer
After the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, former party members were
particularly likely to start businesses and become entrepreneurs. What remains unclear …

Forced displacement and subsequent generations' migration intentions: intergenerational transmission of family migration capital

Z Brunarska, A Ivlevs - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A growing body of evidence for the 'family migration capital'hypothesis–whereby
migration experience in a family leads to a greater propensity to move among migrants' …