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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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period reversed the adverse effects of drought in communities previously affected by the conflict. Potential mechanisms … explaining the strong joint welfare effect of conflict and drought are the failure of economic coping strategies in areas of …
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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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