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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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conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. We exploit the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was exogenous …
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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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This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war … with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices (such as subsistence farming) are shown to enhance welfare in the … post-war period. Market and social exchange induce limited welfare gains. Cotton adoption reduces household welfare, which …
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the most affected. Using the different intensities of the conflict across areas and the age at exposure to the war among …The war in Iraq initiated in March 2003 triggered a wave of violence and turmoil in the country, exposing households to … cohorts, I analyze a possible causal effect of the war on nutritional outcomes of children. I use two empirical strategies …
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-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age … were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with …
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The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbodominated south-eastern region to create the … state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four … decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long-run impacts on human health capital …
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In this paper we estimate the causal effects of civil war on years of education in the context of a school-going age … cohort who are exposed to armed conflict in Cote d’Ivoire. Using year and department of birth to identify an individual …’s exposure to war, the difference-in-difference outcomes indicate that the average years of education for a school-going age …
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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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