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We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade … ethnic violence depend on the ethnic fractionalization. Fighting has a negative effect on the economic situation in highly …
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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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Using the synthetic control method of analysis, we provide the first measurements of the direct economic benefits of a unique robust security response to an insurgency. Of all the states affected by Naxalite violence in India, only one state i.e. Andhra Pradesh raised a specially trained and...
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and intensive margins of livelihoods during a conflict. In particular, it examines how insecurity affects both the choice … shifts in the composition and levels of assets are one of the primarily paths by which conflict-risk lowers welfare. …
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We examine the effect of the 2002-2007 civil conflict in Côte d'Ivoire on children's health status using household … surveys collected before, during, and after the conflict, and information on the exact location and date of conflict events … children's exposure to the conflict. We find that children from regions more affected by the conflict suffered significant …
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conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. We exploit the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was exogenous …
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In this paper, I study how displacement of parents during a violent conflict affects investment in their children …
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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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