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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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We test whether living through conflict in childhood changes political beliefs and engagement. We combine data on the …. Our results suggest that at the population level in Africa, conflict does not alter political beliefs, though the most …
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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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This paper provides a thorough economic evaluation of the anti-drug policies implemented in Colombia between 2000 and 2006 under the so-called Plan Colombia. The paper develops a game theory model of the war against illegal drugs in producer countries. We explicitly model illegal drug markets,...
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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
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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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Following the wave of democratization during the 1990s, elections are now common in low-income societies. However, these elections are frequently flawed. We investigate the Nigerian general election of 2007, which is to date the largest election held in Africa and one seriously marred by...
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present empirical evidence for a panel of Indian states, where conflict, transfers and policing are treated as endogenous …
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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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