The Origins of Elite Persistence:

Evidence from Political Purges in post-World War II France

By: Toke S. Adit, University of Cambridge

Jean Lacroix, Université Paris-Saclay

Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Université libre de Bruxelles

Adit, Lacroix, and Méon show that tribunals in France composed of individuals similar to the defendant decreased

the probability the individual would be purge for collaborating with the Vichy and Nazi regimes durning

World War II.

Technology Transfer and Early Industrial Development:

Evidence From the Sino-Soviet Alliance

By: Michela Giorcelli, University of California, Lost Angeles

Bo Li, Tsinghua University

Giorcelli & Li analyze the long term impact of the souring of Sino-Soviet relations in Chinese plant productivity. They

find that the Chinese production plants that received Soviet technology and support prior to the collapse of the

1950’s alliance outperformed plants that rely on domestic technology into the 1990’s.

The Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War

By: Ana Tur-Prats, University of California at Merced

Felipe Valencia Caicedo, University of British Columbia

Tur-Prats and Caicedo observer higher levels of distrust of government institutions associated with the Civil War in areas exposed to more violence during the Spanish Civil War. Tur-Prats and Caicedo measure exposure to violence

using historical mass graves and historical documents of troop movements.

The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation

By: Mario Cannella, Northwestern University

Alexey Makarin, Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance

Ricardo Pique, Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania

Cannella, Markarin, and Pique document that after World War II, the people in the Nazi Occupation Zone were significantly more likely to support fringe political parties on both the left and the right. During World War II, the Nazi Occupation Zone in Italy was de facto annexed and administered by Nazi Germany. The rest of Italy was administered by the Italian Fascist government.