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The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco- Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We use several measures of stated and revealed preferences at the municipal-level in a...
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show that the distribution of resources is a major driving factor of ethnic income inequality and, thus, induces rent …
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Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
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The energy transition increases the demand for minerals from ethnically diverse, conflict-prone developing countries. We study whether and where mining is possible in such countries without raising the risk of civil conflict. We proceed in three steps: First, we propose a theoretical model to...
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-nationals who remained in Ukraine. Specifically, we identify the determinants of happiness, trust and self-declared health, and the …. Having suffered violence, however, has a lasting adverse impact on the happiness, trust and health of Ukrainians in Poland …
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Although lower income is associated with overweight (and obesity), such an association is explained by a number of … other confounding effects such as omitted variables (e.g., time preferences) explaining that income effect on overweight. We … study the effect of unearned income shocks resulting from a lottery win (windfall income) on both overweight (alongside …
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The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is …'s results are robust to the inclusion of controls such as education, IQ, physical health, height, self-esteem, and later …
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. Women's BMIs decreased throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which may have implications for the health and …
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Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … children's skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …
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Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on … individual labor market outcomes. The data covers the period from 1994 to 2008. It is longitudinal and rich in life-style, health …-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …
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