dc.contributor.author | SCHAFF, Felix S.F. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-06T09:43:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-06T09:43:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.identifier.citation | The journal of economic history, 2024, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 517-553 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-0507 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-6372 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76917 | |
dc.description | Published online: 15 April 2024 | en |
dc.description.abstract | What was the impact of urban political structure on preindustrial wealth inequality? I document that more closed political institutions were associated with higher inequality in a panel of early-modern German cities. To investigate the mechanisms behind that macro-relationship, I construct a unique individual-level panel dataset on personal wealth and political office-holding in the city-state of Nördlingen (1579–1700). I employ a difference-in-differences setting to show that political elites enriched themselves substantially, increasing inequality. To address endogeneity concerns, I exploit the Thirty-Years’ War as a shock to elites’ potential for enrichment from public office. Officials manipulated this crisis to enrich themselves further. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - CUP Transformative Agreement (2023-2025) | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | The journal of economic history | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.title | Urban political structure and inequality : political economy lessons from early modern German cities | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0022050724000135 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 84 | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 517 | en |
dc.identifier.endpage | 553 | en |
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dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en |
dc.rights.license | Attribution 4.0 International | * |