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Eastern European countries have experienced sharp declines in real GDP since 1990. One of the reasons for this decline is the Soviet trade shock, deriving from the collapse of the CMEA and of traditional export markets in the Soviet Union. This paper is an attempt to quantify the magnitude of...
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Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …
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As of this writing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are in their eighth and tenth years, having accrued nearly a …
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segments of the population through a range of mechanisms. We study the effects of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan … longer run 'propaganda' and 'revenge' effects. In Afghanistan we find strong evidence that local exposure to civilian … harm to civilians may indeed help counterinsurgent forces in Afghanistan to reduce insurgent recruitment …
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System. Comparing to those in other duties around the world, deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan increases the odds of developing … on the service, compared to a tour under 120 days. For Army and Navy, a deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan further …
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We report on an experiment examining why default options impact behavior. By randomly assigning employees to different varieties of a salary-linked savings account, we find that default enrollment increases participation by 40 percentage points--an effect equivalent to providing a 50% matching...
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using newly declassified microdata documenting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2014. This …
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induced randomized variation in the method of council elections in 250 villages in Afghanistan. In particular, we compare at …
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governments. Using the random assignment of an innovative election fraud-reducing intervention in Afghanistan, we find that … Afghanistan is a democracy; (2) whether the police should resolve disputes; (3) whether members of parliament provide services …
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This study explores the consequences and origins of between-ethnicity economic inequality both across and within countries. First, combining satellite images of nighttime luminosity with the historical homelands of ethnolinguistic groups we construct measures of ethnic inequality for a large...
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