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, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social … gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b) dampening religious or racial conflict over symbolic and normative …
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This paper examines the effect of terrorism and warfare on international trade. We investigate bilateral trade flows between more than 200 countries over the period from 1960 to 1993. Applying an augmented gravity model that includes several measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find...
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around five years after the end of a conflict, it declines again to pre-war levels within the end of the first post …-war period. Lagged effects of conflict and only subsequent adjustments of redistributive policies in the period of post …
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It has previously been shown that civil conflict influences many economic factors, including education, which play an … important role in development and economic growth. Previous authors working on the influence of conflict on education have …, however, always focused strongly on the supply-side effects, whereas this paper examines the influence of conflict on the …
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The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to … give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict … costs and second by looking at the existing body of cross-country analyses for conflict costs. In addition to the existing …
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This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two...
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We analyse the role of mass violent conflict in influencing individual expectations. We hypothesise that individuals … are likely to report negative expectations if they were exposed to conflict events in the past. We combine individual and … household level data from the Northern Uganda Livelihood Survey of 2007 with a disaggregated conflict exposure index based on …
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