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Land grabbing and ethnic conflict
Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2016
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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Mining for peace
Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2023
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 predict the occurrence and location of conflict events on the …
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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and development
Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - 2017
spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588047
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Democracy and international conflict
Vesperoni, Alberto; Wärneryd, Karl - 2016
nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …
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Ethnic divisions and production in firms
Hjort, Jonas - 2013
. A period of ethnic conflict following Kenyaś 2007 election led to a sharp increase in discrimination. In response, the …. Workers ́behavior before conflict, during conflict, and under team pay is predicted by a model of taste-based discrimination …
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Ethnofederalism and ethnic voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
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Measuring ethnic stratification and its effect on trust in Africa
Hodler, Roland; Srisuma, Sorawoot; Vesperoni, Alberto; … - 2018
We define and axiomatically characterize an index of ethnic stratification that measures the extent to which the hierarchy in socio-economic positions across the individuals of a society follows ethnolinguistic lines. This index generalizes the idea of between-group inequality to situations...
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Diversity and conflict
Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2018
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...
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Trust, ethnic diversity, and personal contact : a field experiment
Finseraas, Henning; Hanson, Torbjørn; Johnsen, Åshild A. - 2019
We study how close personal contact with minorities affects in-group and out-group trust in a field experiment in the armed forces. Soldiers are randomly assigned to rooms with or without ethnic minorities. At the end of the recruit period, we measure trust by using a trust game. Results...
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
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 …
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