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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 …
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Negative reciprocity and its relation to anger-like emotions in homogeneous and heterogeneous groups
Bicskei, Marianna; Lankau, Matthias; Bizer, Kilian - 2014
Several studies have shown that social identity fosters the provision of public goods and enhances the willingness to reciprocate cooperative behavior of group members dependent on the social environment. Yet, the question of how social identity affects negative reciprocity in...
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Social environment and forms of governance: Monetary and non-monetary punishment and the role of emotions
Bicskei, Marianna; Lankau, Matthias; Bizer, Kilian - 2014
The question to what extent social environment affects how individuals govern their groups, has received no special academic attention, yet. Within the framework of a ten-period public goods experi&ment we analyse how social identity affects subjects' choice of punishment: They may either...
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Cooperation preferences in the provision of public goods: An experimental study on the effects of social identity
Lankau, Matthias; Bicskei, Marianna; Bizer, Kilian - 2012
Traditionally economic theory assumes that preferences are stable facilitating positive predictions of economic policy. While there is conflicting experimental evidence on the temporal stability of cooperation preferences in public goods provision, surprisingly little is known about their...
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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...
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Who gives aid to whom and when? Aid accelerations, shocks and policies
Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011
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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Easy targets and the timing of conflict
Bester, Helmut; Konrad, Kai A. - 2003
Contestants have to choose whether to initiate a contest or war, or whether to remain peaceful for another period. We …
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Conflict experiences and household expectations on recovery: Survey evidence from northern Uganda
Bozzoli, Carlos; Brück, Tilman; Muhumuza, Tony - 2010
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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The Welfare Effects of Farm Household Activity Choices in Post-War Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2004
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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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2003
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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