Married to Intolerance: Attitudes towards Intermarriage in Germany, 1900-2006 / Nico Voigtländer, Hans-Joachim Voth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Voigtländer, Nico.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Voth, Hans-Joachim.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w18813.

NBER working paper series no. w18813

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.

Summary:

We analyze under which conditions intermarriage can be used as an indicator of tolerance, and whether such tolerant attitudes persisted in Germany during the last century. We find strong evidence for the persistence of tolerant attitudes towards intermarriage with Jews. At the same time, our empirical analysis also cautions against using intermarriage as a simple proxy for tolerance: The size of Jewish communities in the early 20th century is an important confounding factor.

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Print version record

February 2013.