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Measuring ethno-linguistic affinity between nations

de Groot, Olaf J. - 2009

Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …

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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...

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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2003

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...

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Borderline disorder: (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … across artificial regions within an ethnicity's historical homeland and a theory-based instrumental variable approach, we …

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First and second generation impacts of the biafran war

Akresh, Richard; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Leone, Marinella; … - 2017

We analyze long-term impacts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, providing the first evidence of intergenerational impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being overweight, earlier age at first birth, and lower educational...

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Detailed geographic information, conflict exposure, and health impacts

Akresh, Richard; Caruso, Germán; Thirumurthy, Harsha - 2016

We estimate the impact of exposure to conflict on health outcomes using geographic information on households' distance … from conflict sites - a more accurate measure of shock exposure – and compare the impact on children exposed in utero … versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing …

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Chinese aid in Africa : attitudes and conflict

Sardoschau, Sulin; Jarotschkin, Alexandra - In: European journal of political economy 81 (2024), pp. 1-20

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The employment effects of ethnic politics

Amodio, Francesco; Chiovelli, Giorgio; Hohmann, Sebastian - 2019

This paper studies the labor market consequences of ethnic politics in African democracies. We combine geo-referenced data from 15 countries, 32 parliamentary elections, 62 political parties, 243 ethnic groups, 2,200 electoral constituencies, and 400,000 individuals. We implement a regression...

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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

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