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The Political Economy of Opposition Groups : Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict
Jetter, Michael - 2018
This paper proposes a simple framework to better understand an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open civil conflict against the government. Our model implies that terrorism emerges if constraints on the ruling executive group are intermediate and rents are sizeable,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930080
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The Costs of Organized Violence : A Review of the Evidence
Skaperdas, Stergios - 2021
I critically review recent studies that estimate those costs of violence and conflict that can emerge among organized political groupings, from states, religious and ethnic organizations to guerillas and paramilitaries. The review includes studies that estimate direct and indirect costs due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316344
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War and Natural Resource Exploitation
van der Ploeg, Rick; Rohner, Dominic - 2021
Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316134
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War and Relatedness
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2021
to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316348
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Do Labor Market Institutions Influcence Suicide Mortality? An International Panel Data Analysis
Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2021
We examine the economic and social determinants of suicide mortality in a panel of 25 OECD countries over the period … large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth tends … strict employment protection regulations have a positive influence on suicide mortality. These findings indicate that labor …
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This Mine is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa
Berman, Nicolas - 2015
spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019854
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National Borders, Conflict and Peace
Spolaore, Enrico - 2009
This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper (a) provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; (b) illustrates them within a simple analytical framework where populations fight over borders and resources,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153423
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Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences with an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery
Deuchert, Eva - 2018
This paper proposes a difference-in-differences approach for disentangling a total treatment effect on some outcome into a direct effect as well as an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable – or mediator – within strata defined upon how the mediator reacts to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012935675
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943173
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The Weight of Inequality : Variation with Industrialization and Wealth
Carson, Scott A. - 2015
When other economic measurements are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well accepted measures for cumulative and current net nutrition. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI is the ratio of current to cumulative net nutrition, therefore, does not fully...
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