Unintended Consequences of Protester Arrests - Street-level Evidence from an Autocracy

• In Event: Causes and Consequences of Authoritarian Repression

Brief Overview

This paper uses street-level data on emigration applications and the arrests of protesters during the East German peaceful revolution in the city of Leipzig to document how such repression came with more demand for emigration.

Authors

• Max Deter

• Kalle Kappner

• Hans Lueders, Stanford University