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-breaking or something else entirely, there is no meaningful correlation between a player's home country civil war history and … professional leagues. We find a strong relationship between the history of civil conflict in a player's home country and his …
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This study uses discontinuities in U.S. strategies employed during the Vietnam War to estimate their causal impacts. It …
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We investigate the long-run effects of cooling on conflict. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which we merge with historical temperature data. We show that cooling is associated with increased conflict....
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Diversity poses fundamental challenges to state-building and development. We study the effects of one of post-colonial Africa's largest policy experiments -- the Tanzanian Ujamaa policy -- which attempted to address these challenges. Ujamaa aimed to create a national identity and consolidate...
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fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …
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Why do some leaders invest in significant nation-building policies and others do not? Why does nation-building occur at certain junctures in time and not others? In our research, we investigate what motivates leaders to nation build. We argue that threats to their regime motivate rulers to...
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This paper provides an overview of how the Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine illustrates immediate threats … for the war. The paper also identifies government efforts to counter the spread of disinformation, including efforts to …
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This paper studies the relationship between political conflict and economic growth in a simple model of endogenous growth with distributive conflicts. We study both the case of two "classes" (workers and capitalists) and the case of a continuum distribution of agents, characterized by different...
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Using cross-sectional data from 93 countries, we investigate the relationship between the desired level of redistribution among citizens from different socioeconomic backgrounds and the actual extent of government redistribution. Our focus on redistribution arises from the inherent class...
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We consider the distribution of economic activity within a country in light of three leading theories - increasing returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the distribution of regional population in Japan from the Stone Age to the modern era. We also consider the...
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