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households in the conflict affected regions. In those regions, wealthier households do not reduce allocation to low-risk low … by conflict. …
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. Our results suggest that at the population level in Africa, conflict does not alter political beliefs, though the most …We test whether living through conflict in childhood changes political beliefs and engagement. We combine data on the …
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In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côte d’Ivoire. To identify the … true impact of conflict, we use (1) pre-war and post-war household data, (2) the specific counts of conflict events across … the worst-hit conflict areas and individuals who are the direct victims of the conflict having lower dietary energy supply …
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end of the conflict in eight villages to describe the characteristics of the returnees vis-a-vis those of non … conflict and are less involved in the production of cash crops. Even though returnees seem to face worse economic conditions …
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This paper investigates the effect of conflict on firms' output value and input misallocation in the context of … over time across districts experiencing differential changes in conflict intensity. We show how conflict diminishes the … domestically produced materials for imported ones. We also empirically identify the relative amount of conflict-induced input …
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Conflict is either caused by, or brings about, drastic changes in the underlying social relationships between members … of a community involved in the conflict. The conflict literature has taken note, and a growing number of studies attempt … to determine the relationship between conflict and social capital. Unfortunately, there are many problems that have …
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This paper analyses the relationship between redistributive policies and civil unrest. This relationship is modelled in a discrete two-period recursive model. Key theoretical assumptions and outcomes are tested empirically using data for a panel of 14 major Indian states between 1973 and 2000....
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Social tensions impede social cohesion and public goods provision. They can also be a driving force for more serious conflicts such as civil wars. Surprisingly, however, the emergence of social tensions has only rarely been studied in the literature. In the present contribution a game-theoretic...
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conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is … identified. The theory predicts conflict to be more likely when the geographical distribution of natural resources is uneven and … when a minority group has better chances to win a secessionist rather than a centrist conflict. For sharing rents, resource …
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