Austerity and the rise of the nazi party

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Gregori Galofré-Vilà, Universidad Pública de Navarra; Christopher M. Meissner, University of California, Davis, and the NBER; Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; David Stuckler, University of Bocconi

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Project Citation: 

Galofré-Vilà, Gregori, M. Meissner, Christopher, McKee, Martin, and Stuckler, David. Austerity and the rise of the nazi party. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-10-25. https://doi.org/10.3886/E125101V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary The datasets and replication kit in this project are associated with the research paper, 'Austerity and the rise of the Nazi party'. In this paper we study the link between fiscal austerity and Nazi electoral success. Voting data from a thousand districts and a hundred cities for four elections between 1930 and 1933 show that areas more affected by austerity (spending cuts and tax increases) had relatively higher vote shares for the Nazi Party. We also find that the localities with relatively high austerity experienced relatively high suffering (measured by mortality rates) and these areas’ electorates were more likely to vote for the Nazi Party. Our findings are robust to a range of specifications including an instrumental variable strategy and a border-pair policy discontinuity design. 



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