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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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This paper develops a conception of personal identity for Amartya Sen's capability framework that emphasizes his self-scrutinizing aspect of the self and related concept of commitment, and compares this conception to the co1lective intentionality-based one advanced in Davis (2003c). The paper...
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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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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 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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This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war … with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices (such as subsistence farming) are shown to enhance welfare in the … post-war period. Market and social exchange induce only limited welfare gains. Cotton adoption reduces household welfare …
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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 farm size for the analysis of land investment and tenure security. The … paper formally tests for land abundance and estimates a system of equations using farm survey data from post-war Mozambique …
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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 strategies in post-war Mozambique. Post-war coping strategies differ from pre …
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This paper identifies the role of cultural diversity in explaining spatial disparities in wages and housing prices across Dutch cities, using unique individual panel data of home owners. We distinguish between the effects of interactions-based productivity, consumption amenities and sorting of...
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The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the...
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