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

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sascha O. Becker, Monash University; Volker Lindenthal, LMU Munich; Sharun Mukand, University of Warwick; Fabian Waldinger, LMU Munich

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Project Citation: 

Becker, Sascha O., Lindenthal, Volker, Mukand, Sharun, and Waldinger, Fabian. Data and Code for: Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High- Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-06-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E183701V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary
We study the role of professional networks in facilitating emigration of Jewish academics dismissed from their positions by the Nazi government. We use individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of dismissals to estimate causal effects. Academics with more ties to early émigrés (emigrated 1933-1934) were more likely to emigrate. Early émigrés functioned as “bridging nodes” that facilitated emigration to their own destination. We also provide evidence of decay in social ties over time and show that professional networks transmit information that is not publicly observable. Finally, we study the relative importance of three types (family, community, professional) of social networks.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources ESRC (ES/L011719/1); CRC TRR 190 (280092119); Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Professional Networks; High-Skilled Emigration; Nazi Germany; Jewish Academics; Universities
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      I20 Education and Research Institutions: General
      I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
      I28 Education: Government Policy
      J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      N30 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative
      N34 Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: Europe: 1913-
      N40 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: General, International, or Comparative
      N44 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: 1913-
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Germany
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1933 – 1945
Collection Date(s):  View help for Collection Date(s) 2015 – 2020
Universe:  View help for Universe Academics of Jewish descent in Nazi Germany
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) other
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Hand-collected biographical data.


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