Showing 1 - 10 of 23
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884913
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253123
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607357
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010698402
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010759902
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700972
Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict have made Colombia home to over 3 million Internally Displaced … accumulation and enrollment gaps created by being directly affected by conflict. We proxy for this direct impact by focusing on … IDPs. First, we show that measuring the impact of conflict on children using levels of conflict at the municipal level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010635273
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196633
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767757
households in the conflict affected regions. In those regions, wealthier households do not reduce allocation to low-risk low … by conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767765