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In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings …. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of … Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Palestinian employment rates in Israel and mean monthly earnings, regardless of work location …
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This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect … conflict to a greater extent when dyads are geographically close, but has a greater effect on cooperation when countries are … more distant. Geographic proximity increases conflict and cooperation more among non-trading dyads. …
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One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L’Esprit des Lois, argued, “peace is...
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Strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have been the primary weapon used by the United States to combat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from...
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analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance take-turn strategy can emerge. First, our results show that players learn … to solve the conflict by choosing opposite options at both stages of the game. Second, many adopt a take-turn strategy to … increases the likelihood of conflict resolution even when a single pair member has the right to communicate. …
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Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to … exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different children's birth … cohorts to the fighting. The paper uniquely incorporates GPS information on the distance between survey villages and conflict …
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fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …
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variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war … reduces annual growth by .01 to .13 percentage points, and high-intensity interstate conflict reduces annual growth by .18 to …
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This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using … women’s likelihood of employment increased as a consequence of the conflict. …
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Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of … Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The effect of being directly impacted by conflict on a child's educational accumulation and … productivity. This paper explores the educational accumulation and enrollment gap created by being directly affected by conflict …
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