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Making Democracy Work: Culture, Social Capital and Elections in China

Padró i Miquel, Gerard; Qian, Nancy; Xu, Yiqing; Yao, Yang - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper aims to show that culture is an important determinant of the effectiveness of formal democratic institutions … elections. These results support the view that social capital complements democratic institutions such as elections. …

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Do Immigrants and Their Children Free Ride More Than Natives?

Osili, Una Okonkwo; Xie, Jia - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 2, pp. 28-34

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The not so dark side of trust: Does trust increase the size of the shadow economy?

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; D'Hernoncourt, Johanna - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2012

endogeneity. It is independent from trust in institutions and from income inequality, and is mainly present in the sample of …This paper reports a negative relationship between the size of the shadow economy and generalized trust, in a sample of … developing countries. Those findings suggest that the tax compliance effect of trust dominates its role as a substitute for the …

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Economic Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Commodity Prices

Bazzi, Samuel; Blattman, Christopher - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 6 (2014) 4, pp. 1-38

Higher national incomes are correlated with political stability. Is this relationship causal? We test three theories linking income to conflict with new data on export price shocks. Price shocks have no effect on new conflict, even large shocks in high-risk nations. Rising prices, however,...

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Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: A Comment

Ciccone, Antonio - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (2011) 4, pp. 215-27

Edward Miguel, Shanker Satyanath, and Ernest Sergenti (2004), henceforth MSS, argue that lower rainfall levels and negative rainfall shocks increase conflict risk in sub-Saharan Africa. This conclusion rests on their finding of a negative correlation between conflict in t and rainfall growth...

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Re-examining Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict

Miguel, Edward; Satyanath, Shanker - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3 (2011) 4, pp. 228-32

Miguel, Satyanath, and Ernest Sergenti (2004), henceforth MSS, show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in Africa, using annual rainfall variation as an IV for growth. Antonio Ciccone (2011) argues that thanks to rainfall's mean-reverting nature, rainfall levels are...

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Nonparasitic warlords and geographic distance

Hionis, Jerry - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 10 (2015) 1, pp. 5-12

The explicit consideration of geography in the conflict theory literature is still relatively rare. In this article, two warlords are modeled as being located at opposing ends of a hypothetical line. The model includes variables denoting distance and difficulty of terrain. Each warlord allocates...

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Violence and Risk Preference: Experimental Evidence from Afghanistan

Callen, Michael; Isaqzadeh, Mohammad; Long, James D.; … - In: American Economic Review 104 (2014) 1, pp. 123-48

We investigate the relationship between violence and economic risk preferences in Afghanistan combining: (i) a two-part experimental procedure identifying risk preferences, violations of Expected Utility, and specific preferences for certainty; (ii) controlled recollection of fear based on...

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Why Was the Arab World Poised for Revolution? Schooling, Economic Opportunities, and the Arab Spring

Campante, Filipe R.; Chor, Davin - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (2012) 2, pp. 167-88

What underlying long-term conditions set the stage for the Arab Spring? In recent decades, the Arab region has been characterized by an expansion in schooling coupled with weak labor market conditions. This pattern is especially pronounced in those countries that saw significant upheaval during...

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Chapter 22 Economics of Conflict: An Overview

Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 649-709). 2007

In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced, represents a significant departure from the traditional paradigm...

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