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Insuring Peace : Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356486
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Stimulant or Depressant? Resource-Related Income Shocks and Conflict
Gehring, Kai - 2019
We provide evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. Combining temporal variation in international drug prices with spatial variation in the suitability to produce opium, we show that higher drug prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860581
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Droughts and Farms' Financial Performance in New Zealand : A Micro Farm-Level Study
Pourzand, Farnaz - 2019
current (same fiscal year) drought events have positive impacts on dairy farms’ revenue and profit; this effect is most likely … attributable to drought-induced increases in the price of milk solids (New Zealand is the market maker in this global market). In … general, dairy farmers ‘benefit’ more from drought events when compared to sheep/beef farms, whereas the latter sector has …
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Impacts of Droughts and Floods on Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand as Measured from Space
Blanc, Élodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022
This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...
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Droughts and Malnutrition in Africa
Fingado, Nora; Poelhekke, Steven - 2023
, unlike recurring droughts, a first-time exposure to a three-month severe drought reduces individuals’ body mass index by 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357628
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“Let Them Eat Cake” : Drought, Peasant Uprisings, and Demand for Institutional Change in the French Revolution
Waldinger, Maria - 2023
The paper studies whether a drought in 1788 affected the outbreak of peasant revolts during the French Revolution. I … construct a community-level data set with information on local drought severity and peasant uprisings in 1789. Results indicate … that those more affected by the drought more often participated in peasant revolts against the feudal system. Then, I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259693
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Armed Groups in Conflict : Competition and Political Violence in Pakistan
Gassebner, Martin - 2020
This paper studies how an increase in the number of armed groups operating within an area affects the amount of organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the split of a major group due to the natural death of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830355
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COVID-19 Fatalities and Internal Conflict : Does Government Economic Support Matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2021
In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323876
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Extraterritorial Trade Sanctions : Theory and Application to the US-Iran-EU Conflict
Janeba, Eckhard - 2022
Under extraterritorial sanctions the sanctioning country extends its policies to trade of third countries with the sanctioned country. A prominent example is former US President Trump’s decision to leave the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a multilateral agreement with Iran. The...
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The Effect of Corruption on Internal Conflict in Iran Using Newspaper Coverage
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022
1962 to 2019, we find a positive and significant response of protests to a positive shock in the news-based corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307210