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Violent conflict and inequality
Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271373
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War and the international trading system in the twentieth century
Rockoff, Hugh - 2011
the twentieth century were dominated by the international gold standard. But as a result of World War I, this system was … replaced by the troubled gold exchange standards of the 1920s and 1930s. As a result of World War II the interwar system was … replaced in turn by the Bretton Woods system. And as a result of inflation of the late 1960s, produced in part by America's war …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282840
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
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Does the leader's ethnicity matter? Ethnic favoritism, education and health in Sub-Saharan Africa
Franck, Raphaël; Rainer, Ilia - 2012
In this paper we reassess the role of ethnic favoritism in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using data from 18 African countries, we study how primary education and infant mortality of ethnic groups were affected by changes in the ethnicity of the countries' leaders during the last fifty years. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336070
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Daoud, Yousef - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period 2004-2008. Comparable data, similar definitions and same methodology are used in the estimations. The estimates are provided first for average returns to education second for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500181
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History matters in microfinance
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2003
institutions (MFIs). Every now developed country has its own history of microfinance. It is important to recognize this because it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297106
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The dynamic consequences of state-building: Evidence from the French Revolution
Chambru, Cédric; Henry, Emeric; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2022
How do radical reforms of the state shape economic development over time? In 1790, France's first Constituent Assembly overhauled the kingdom's organization to set up new administrative entities and local capitals. In a subset of departments, new capitals were chosen quasi-randomly as the...
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Ethnic fragmentation and police spending: social identity and a public good
Ajilore, Olugbenga; Smith, John - 2007
We present evidence that more ethnically fragmented communities spend, all else equal, more on police services than less fragmented communities. We introduce a model of spending on police services which we use to interpret the data. In this model, we assume that the decision to commit a crime is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266339
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Social Identity and Group Lending
Chatterjee, Prabirendra; Sarangi, Sudipta - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260680
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Redistributive preferences, redistribution, and inequality: Evidence from a panel of OECD countries
Kuhn, Andreas - 2012
This paper describes individuals' inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in a panel of OECD countries, primarily focusing on the association between these subjective measures and the effective level of inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316895