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survivors health is crucial for the design of post-war economic policies. This paper investigates this question for the … Mozambican civil war, using an original geo-referenced event dataset. I find that women exposed to the conflict during the early … depends both on the age of entry into civil war and on the number of months spent in conflict. Furthermore, this study …
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This paper contributes to the heated debate on the link between climate and civil war. We exploit a large dataset of a …-death threshold. Overall, results show a robust link between drought and civil war in Sub-Saharan African states after independence. …
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This paper investigates the determinants of the shape of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Because the world is constituted by independent political entities, international trade flows take place in a system where property rights are unsecured and RTAs should be understood as regulation...
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This paper studies the U.S. economy from an original point of view: that of the links existing between crisis and war … that are being implemented, as well as the "currency war" issue. Then, the central focus moves towards U.S. warfare as a … crisis and war exacerbe the current capitalist contradictions. …
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This article delivers the first comprehensive analysis of the new database, 'Mémoire des hommes', which gathers more than 1 Million French soldiers officially recognized as dead for France during WW1. Crossing this source with the 1911 census, we evaluate the potential numbers of recruits by...
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Suicide attack is the most virulent and horrifying form of terrorism in the world today. The mere rumor of an impending … majority of all terrorism-related casualties, and the rate of attacks is rising rapidly across the globe. During 2000 … carried out by Islamist groups claiming religious motivation, also known as jihadis. Rand Corp. vice president and terrorism …
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Contemporary suicide terrorists from the Middle East are publicly deemed crazed cowards bent on senseless destruction who thrive in poverty and ignorance. Recent research indicates they have no appreciable psychopathology and are as educated and economically well-off as surrounding populations....
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standard property insurance and for catastrophe coverage (here, terrorism). We find that larger companies are more likely to … insurance for non-catastrophe risks. This result differs from the findings on individual demand for insurance. The terrorism … price elasticity of the demand for terrorism insurance is half in this area relative to the rest of the country. …
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