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Taking "Don't Knows" as Valid Responses: A Complete Random Imputation of Missing Data

Kroh, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

Incomplete data is a common problem of survey research. Recent work on multiple imputation techniques has increased analysts' awareness of the biasing effects of missing data and has also provided a convenient solution. Imputation methods replace non-response with estimates of the unobserved...

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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used...

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An Economic Analysis of Security Policies

Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper analyses public policy choices in the security economy from an economic perspective. It discusses the role of public goods for national and global security and identifies the importance of the first- and second-order indirect effects of insecurity on economic activity, which include...

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On the Interaction between Fear and Hatred

Murshed, Syed Mansoob - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper models conflictual interaction between a European state and a domestic dissident immigrant minority group, Muslims say, some of whom may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial and provides the micro-foundations of dissident behaviour by solving the collective action...

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More Security Issues are Needed on the European Union Agenda: Beyond an Academic Concept of In/Security in the Era of Global Terrorism

Krulík, Oldrich; Pernica, Buhoslav; Stejskal, Libor; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Security as an objectively existing quality which can be discussed in innumerable ways, but it may hardly be ignored and its significance (let alone its existence) may hardly be doubted. Security is a fundamental human need which is a subject of our efforts for its satisfaction and its chronic...

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Threat Perceptions in Europe: Domestic Terrorism and International Crime

Murshed, Syed Mansoob - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper focuses on two areas of security concern for the European Union: terrorism and international crime. I present a model of game-theoretic interaction between a European state and a domestic dissident group, who, on occasion, may resort to acts of terrorism. Here, identity is crucial to...

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Are Uzbeks Better off than Kyrgyz?: Measuring and Decomposing Horizontal Inequality

Esenaliev, Damir; Steiner, Susan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

We investigate horizontal inequality between two conflictive ethnic groups, the Kyrgyz and the Uzbeks in Kyrgyzstan, by employing the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. This technique has a long tradition in labour economics but has not been used in the literature that links ethnic inequality and...

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The Effects of Labor Supply Shocks on Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Mansour, Hani - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Since September 2000, as a result of mobility restrictions, the supply of Palestinian workers competing for local jobs in the West Bank has increased by about fifty percent. This paper takes advantage of this unique natural experiment to study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market...

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Determinants of Protests: Longitudinal Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

two different -and equally interesting- features of the revolution: the determinants of participation (both in the … participation). We consider different drivers of participation, from traditional proxies for opportunities and grievances, but we … connectivity. What emerges from this study is a more nuanced pattern of participation that does not link uniquely to a single …

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Movers or Stayers? Understanding the Drivers of IDP Camp Decongestion during Post-Conflict Recovery in Uganda

Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

The paper explores factors that influence the household decision to leave internal displacement camps in the immediate aftermath of violent conflict. Our analysis is based on two sources of information: household survey data collected in northern Uganda for households that were displaced by the...

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