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We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …
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loses at the expense of the relatively strong group. -- conflict ; incentives ; group-size paradox …
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The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This …
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In this paper we present a conceptual framework linking cultural heterogeneity to inter-group conflict. When conflict … conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are more likely to engage in war with each other. We formalize these ideas …
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relative size and the relative surplus contribution of the minority group, conflict followed by secession can occur. Accepted …
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nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …
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Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...
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We study the effect of large-scale land acquisitions on the risk of ethnic tensions for a sample of 133 countries for the 2000-2012 period. Running a series of fractional response models, we find that more land grabbing activity is associated with a higher risk of ethnic tensions, indicating...
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based on neighborly recognition of borders could deliver a desired low-conflict situation if accompanied by an optional …
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Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers … could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also … on conflict in Niger. The analysis relies on the large-scale randomization of a government-led cash transfer program …
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