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on the effect of civil war, we find that villagelevel violence, measured as the number of battle-related deaths or … period. Results are robust to alternative variables of civil war shocks and model specifications, including household fixed …
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Grievance and reduced opportunity costs are two popular ideas within the civil war literature to explain participation … war in Burundi. We use historical data on violent attacks in 1972 and 1988 as a proxy for grievance. The cross … literature: commodity price shocks show no robust relationship with civil war violence while weather shocks do. …
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Recent research on violence against civilians during wars has emphasized war-related factors over political ones. For … factors such as ideological alignments or local political competition. In this paper, I argue that the emphasis on war … political and war-related factors. Hypotheses are tested using data on 1,377 municipalities during the Spanish Civil War. I find …
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Since World War II there have been about fifty episodes of large-scale mass killings of civilians and massive forced … interstate war, as in the latter group sizes matter less for future rents. In non polarized societies there are asymmetric …
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We use experimental data from 35 randomly selected communities in Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to conflict on social-, risk- and time preferences. These types of preferences are important as they determine people’s propensity to invest and their ability to overcome social...
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This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war … are confronted with civil war violence in their home communities increase export and cash crop growing activities, invest …
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Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age five using data from a Rwandan nationally representative household survey conducted in 1992. We exploit district and time variation in...
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the time of the conflict. Our paper introduces a methodology to estimate the effect of war on the stock of human capital …
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form of displacement should be consistent across the wars: displacement is a tactic of war that armed groups use to conquer … loyalties. We test the theory using two fine-grained datasets on individuals displaced during a conventional civil war, in Spain … (1936-1939), and an irregular civil war, in Colombia (1964-). In both cases, the war cleavage was reflected in national …
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the last two decades and experienced large-scale violence. This paper undertakes a disaggregated analysis of the civil war … population and the share of Muslim population is a significant determinant of civil war at the sub-prefecture level. Furthermore …, more populous areas are at high risk of civil war, but the outcome is statistically significant only at the department …
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