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Triggers and Characteristics of the 2007 Kenyan Electoral Violence

Dercon, Stefan; Gutierrez-Romero, Roxana - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Following the 2007 disputed Kenyan Presidential election unprecedented levels of violence erupted across the country adding to the history of troubled elections in Africa. This paper offers quantitative and qualitative evidence on the incidence, impacts and issues that triggered electoral...

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Crime, Isolation, and Law Enforcement

Fafchamps, Marcel; Moser, Christine - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

This paper investigates the relationship between criminal activity and geographical isolation. Using data from Madagascar, we show that, after we control for population composition and risk factors, crime increases with distance from urban centers and, with few exceptions, decreases with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005090667

Human Rights Violations after 9/11 and the Role of Constitutional Constraints

Goderis, Benedikt; Versteeg, Mila - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

After 9/11, the United States and its allies took measures to protect their citizens from future terrorist attacks. While these measures aim to increase security, they have often been criticized for violating human rights. But violating rights is difficult in a constitutional democracy with...

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Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier?

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Chang, Yuan - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This is a pioneering study of the determinants of the subjective well-being of ethnic minority people in rural China …

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Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country

Knight, John; Gunatilaka, Ramani - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

determinants of subjective well-being. Less attention has been paid to its normative implications. Taking China as a case study …

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Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms

Knight, John; Ding, Sai; Guariglia, Alessandra - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

, industries and regions, we find that corporate investment in China has become increasingly efficient over time. However, based … good explanation for China's overinvestment, especially for the private sector, while in the sector, overinvestment is …

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Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth

Knight, John; Ding, Sai; Guariglia, Alessandra - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

This paper attempts to address a puzzle in China's investment pattern: despite high aggregate investment and remarkable …

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Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function

Knight, John; Gunatilaka, Ramani - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

appropriate data set for China. The tests favour the early theories. Implications are drawn. …

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Is the Dragon Learning to Fly? An Analysis of the Chinese Patent Explosion

Eberhardt, Markus; Helmers, Christian - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

China and the United States. We construct a firm-level dataset by matching USPTO and SIPO patents to Chinese manufacturing … China are considerably younger, larger and substantially more export-oriented than firms patenting exclusively in China …. Our study contributes to the debate on China's innovative prowess and its potential to transition from an imitator to an …

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Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Quheng, Deng - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

generate a poverty trap. The setting is rural China, and the data are from a national household survey for 2002, designed with … research hypotheses in mind. Enrolment is high in rural China by comparison with most poor rural societies, but the quality of …

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