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Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …
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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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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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Evidence shows even low levels of land conflict may undermine land governance and management, constrain agricultural … productivity, and serve to perpetuate civil violence. This study estimates the effect of conflict-related displacement experiences … outcomes, and land outcomes are affected by displacement experience, there is no joint effect in determining post-conflict land …
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In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary diversity in Côte d’Ivoire. To identify the true … impact of conflict, we use (1) pre-war and post-war household data, (2) the specific counts of conflict events across … in the worst-hit conflict areas and individuals who are the direct victims of the conflict having lower dietary diversity …
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Nation-building has long been seen as an important focus of post-colonial African governments. However, up until now there has been no empirical analysis of the consequences of nation-building policies. Here we compile an original dataset measuring nine different types of nation-building...
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countries affected by violent conflict and assesses prospects for “fast-track” institution building. Conflict … general conclusions about attempts at local institution building in conflict-affected contexts. The evidence tells us that CDD …
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This paper studies the impact of gender and ethnicity on educational outcomes in Bolivia, Mexico, Peru, Senegal, and …, and secondary school completion are larger for minority ethnic groups compared to others, or ethnicity-based differences … are larger for women compared to men. The findings suggest that the intersection of gender and ethnicity confers …
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