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The Impact of a Large-Scale Natural Disaster on Local Economic Activity : Evidence from the 2003 Bam Earthquake in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Fischer, Sven - 2023
This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in … disaster relief during the reformist government of President Khatami, the political trust and mobilization of civil society in …, economic activity in Bam County returns to its pre-disaster development path after seven years …
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The Social Cost of Carbon with Intragenerational Inequality Under Economic Uncertainty
van der Ploeg, Rick; Emmerling, Johannes; Groom, Ben - 2022
intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk aversion. If growth increases (reduces) intra-generational inequality, the SDR is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082790
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Diversity and Conflict
Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2018
significantly to the risk and intensity of historical and contemporary internal conflicts, accounting for the confounding effects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872046
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Regional Inequality, Convergence, and its Determinants - A View from Outer Space
Lessmann, Christian; Seidel, André - 2015
This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light data. We first empirically study the relationship between luminosity data and regional incomes for those countries where regional income data are available. We subsequently use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531799
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Gender Equality in Muslim-Majority Countries
Gouda, Moamen; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
Discrimination has been documented against women in Muslim-majority countries. Constitutions differ among Muslim-majority countries. By using women’s rights indicators and exploiting cross-country variation, we find that discrimination against women is more pronounced in countries where Islam...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480466
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Policies against Human Trafficking: The Role of Religion and Political Institutions
Potrafke, Niklas - 2013
I investigate empirically the role of religion and political institutions in policies against human trafficking, using the new 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index. The dataset contains 175 countries. The results show that governments in countries with Christian majorities implement stricter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317039
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Democracy and countries with Muslim majorities: A reply and update
Potrafke, Niklas - 2012
My empirical results in Potrafke (2012) confirm past conclusions that Muslim-majority countries are less likely to be democratic. Hanusch takes issue with my results - and by inference with all past empirical results on the relation between Islam and democracy. In his comment on my study,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291527
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Economic Freedom and Religion: An Empirical Investigation
Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522517
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Measuring Religion from Behavior: Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua E.; Callen, Michael - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470372
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Measuring Religion from Behavior : Climate Shocks and Religious Adherence in Afghanistan
Dube, Oeindrila; Blumenstock, Joshua Evan; Callen, Michael - 2022
Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241308