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Regional cultural identity increases trust and facilitates interaction between native citizens ('social capital'). At the same time, it also affects non-native's migration decisions and their utility as it excludes non-native mobile workers from economic interaction within the region. Policies...
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focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …
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world. First, we explore possible relations between the prevalence of narratives and the observed behavior in economic … world. Second, we construct a motif distance index that approximates the cultural distance between countries. Third, we …
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The success of joint liability programs depends on nature and composition of borrowing groups. Group formation is a costly process and in our model these costs vary with the social identity of group partners. We show that risk heterogeneity in a borrowing group may arise due to the social...
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By conducting a high-frequency event study similar to Gürkaynak et al.(2005), we find that two factors are needed to adequately capture the effects of monetary policy announcements for a non-inflation targeting emerging market economy, Malaysia. These factors are the surprise changes inthe...
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In 2016, the US elections and Brexit changed the perception and understanding of how social media platforms could influence political outcomes. This has been complemented by the advancement in automation and data processing. This paper studies the influence of bots on online information...
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We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
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We study the acceptability of war as a necessary tool to obtain justice under certain conditions across individuals … support for using destructive military force to achieve justice. Overall, the acceptance of war for justice is relatively low … support for war for justice in both countries, such as gender and level of happiness. Support in both countries is also …
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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...
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We assemble a data set of more that eight million German Twitter posts related to the war in Ukraine. Based on state …-of-the-art methods of text analysis, we construct a daily index of uncertainty about the war as perceived by German Twitter. The approach … the war. …
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