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Population and Civil War
Acemoglu, Daron - 2017
Medical and public health innovations in the 1940s quickly resulted in significant health improvements around the world …
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Resource Concentration and Civil Wars
Morelli, Massimo - 2014
This paper highlights the importance of natural resource concentration and ethnic group regional concentration for ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is identified. The theory predicts war to be more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458535
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Culture, Institutions and Democratization
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2015
We construct a model of revolution and transition to democracy under individualistic and collectivist cultures. The … culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical … democracy, even after controlling for other determinants of democracy emphasized in the literature. We provide evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457549
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Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace
Farber, Henry S. - 1995
than is that of other country pairs only after World War II. Before 1914 and between the World Wars, there is no difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473888
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The Political Economy of Weak Treaties
Battaglini, Marco - 2016
In recent decades, democratic countries have signed hundreds of international environmental agreements (IEAs). Most of these agreements, however, are weak: they generally do not include effective enforcement or monitoring mechanisms. This is a puzzle in standard economic models. To study this...
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U.S. War Costs : Two Parts Temporary, One Part Permanent
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2010
Military spending, fatalities, and the destruction of capital, all of which are immediately felt and are often large, are the most overt costs of war. They are also relatively short-lived. The costs of war borne by combatants and their caretakers, which includes families, communities, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462548
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The Effect of OEF/OIF Deployment Intensity on the Rate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Population
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2009
System. Comparing to those in other duties around the world, deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan increases the odds of developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463446
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War and Inflation in the United States from the Revolution to the First Iraq War
Rockoff, Hugh - 2015
The institutional arrangements governing the creation of money in the United States have changed dramatically since the Revolution. Yet beneath the surface the story of wartime money creation has remained much the same. During wars against minor powers, the government was able to fund the war by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457446
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Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation : New Evidence on the Significance of 40 Acres
Collins, William J.; Holtkamp, Nicholas C.; Wanamaker, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The US Civil War ended in 1865 without the distribution of land or compensation to those formerly enslaved--a decision often seen as a cornerstone of racial inequality. We build a dataset to observe Black households' landholdings in 1880, a key component of their wealth, alongside a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172157
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Persistence of Civil Wars
Acemoglu, Daron - 2009
A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463272