Measuring Destruction from Above --- Long-Term Effects of the WWII Air Raid Damages on Contemporary Sociopolitical Activities in Japan

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Brief Overview

This paper reports the new causal evidence of the long-term effects of the destruction due to the air raids on the sociopolitical behaviors of current inhabitants using the original neighborhood-level dataset of the Great Tokyo Air Raids in 1945.

Authors

• Masataka Harada, Fukuoka University

• Gaku Ito, Hiroshima University