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Replication Data for: Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence: Nazi Concentration Camps and Contemporary Intolerance

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Title Replication Data for: Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence: Nazi Concentration Camps and Contemporary Intolerance
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0PY9EA
 
Creator Pepinsky, Thomas
Goodman, Sara Wallace
Ziller, Conrad
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description A wealth of recent research in comparative politics examines how spatial variation in historical conditions shapes modern political outcomes. In an article in the American Political Science Review, Homola, Pereira, and Tavits argue that Germans who live nearer to former Nazi concentration camps are more likely to display out-group intolerance. Clarifying the conceptual foundations of post-treatment bias and reviewing the historical record on post-war state creation in Germany, we argue that state-level differences confound the relationship between distance to camps and out-group intolerance. Using publicly available European Values Survey data and electoral results from 2017, we find no consistent evidence that distance to camps is related to contemporary values. Our findings have implications for literatures on historical persistence, causal inference with spatial data, Holocaust studies, and outgroup tolerance.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Date 2023-03-02
 
Contributor Pepinsky, Thomas