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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004147
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999239
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Patent Laws and Innovation in China
Yueh, Linda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006
China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977872
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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China
Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
Social instability is a concept that economists rarely analyse, and yet it can lurk behind much economic policy-making.  China’s leadership has often publicly expressed its concerns to avoid ‘social instability’.  It is viewed as a threat both to the political order and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133081
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159002
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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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Carbon policy in a high-growth economy: The case of China
Bretschger, Lucas; Zhang, Lin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014
 because it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China.  To quantify these costs we develop a general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183195
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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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