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The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated 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 …
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well as several measures of exposure to war shocks such as experience of dispossession, persecution, combat in local areas …In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status (SES) and health of older … Retirement in Europe (SHARE) in 2009. This survey provides detailed data on events in childhood including those during the war as …
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The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used...
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focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …
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probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the …
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part of SHARE in Europe in 2009, with administrative data on food supply (caloric rations) in post-war Germany. The data …
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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 …
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During the period 2001-2009, four combat brigades and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment were based at Fort Carson …, Colorado. These units were repeatedly deployed during the Iraq War, allowing us to measure the effect of arguably exogenous …. We conclude that soldiers returning from combat do not represent a special threat to public safety. …
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Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output …
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women in 1990 underestimated the true, selection-corrected gap, i.e., the gap we would have expected to see had all of these … women been employed in 1990. In this paper, we use the NLSY97 to update his analysis. The observed median log wage gap … considerable extent by changes in the distribution of educational attainment across young white and black women. …
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