Were Jews in interwar Poland more educated?

Economic Integration in Interwar Poland

In this paper we study the issue of economic integration in Poland between 1924 and 1937 by means of a threshold cointegration analysis of the law of one price. We find that the interwar economy can be regarded as integrated but with obvious restrictions which refer to the existence of relevant transaction costs for arbitrage and differences in the level of prices between cities. Moreover, the ...

Economic Integration in Interwar Poland - A Threshold Cointegration Analysis

In this paper we study the issue of economic integration in Poland between 1924 and 1937 by means of a threshold cointegration analysis of the law of one price. We find that the interwar economy can be regarded as integrated but with obvious restrictions which refer to the existence of relevant transaction costs for arbitrage and differences in the level of prices between cities. Moreover, the ...

Endowments, Market Potential, and Industrial Location: Evidence from Interwar Poland (1918-1939)

The paper explores the determinants of industry location across interwar Poland. After the political reunification of Poland at the end of 1918 its industry faced massive structural changes: the removal of internal tariff barriers and improved infrastructure strengthened the domestic market, while foreign market relations were cut off. Similarly, the geographical dispersion of factor endowments...

Ethnic Diversity, Democracy, and Electoral Extremism: Lessons from Interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia

Do the more educated know more about health? Evidence from schooling and HIV knowledge in Zimbabwe

This paper explores a fundamental link between education and health: knowledge about health. Do the educated know more about how certain diseases are spread and how to prevent themselves against it? Using age specific exposure to an education reform in Zimbabwe, we find that people with more years of schooling know more about how HIV spreads. Attending some secondary school raises the probabili...