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Surviving the genocide : the impact of the Rwandan genocide on child mortality

Ciani, Federico; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013

is measured exploiting the differential effects of timing of birth and genocide intensity at the household and geographic …

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Business in genocide : understanding and avoiding complicity

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016

engaged in genocide to a more analytical exploration of why businesses have made the choices they did in the process of their … engagement with genocide. This is also necessary to advance the debate on how to hold businesses accountable for gross human …

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The effects of conflict on fertility : evidence from the genocide in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman; Di Maio, Michele; … - 2019

This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the … hazard of having a child in the early post-genocide period and on the total number of post-genocide births up to 15 years …-level sex ratio. Results indicate that the genocide had heterogeneous effects on fertility, depending on the type of violence …

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The long-term direct and external effects of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2011

This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with...

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La Meglio Gioventù : earnings gaps across generations and skills in Italy

Naticchioni, Paolo; Raitano, Michele; Vittori, Claudia - 2014

skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian "best of youth", i.e. the best workers of the most …

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Close neighbours matter : neighbourhood effects on early performance at school

Goux, Dominique (contributor); Maurin, Eric (contributor) - 2006

Children's outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because people with similar characteristics are observed to live in close proximity. Another major difficulty...

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Symbolic values, value formation and interpersonal relations

Corneo, Giacomo - 2009

Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated...

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Longer-term impacts of mentoring, educational services, and incentives to learn : evidence from a randomized trial

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2010

employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that offered disadvantaged high-school youth … matters. While encouraging results are found for the younger youth; detrimental long-lived outcomes for males suggest that …

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Are young people’s educational outcomes linked to their sense of control?

Barón, Juan David; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2010

This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...

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Under pressure? : the effect of peers on outcomes of young adults

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010

A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very susceptible to peer influences. Despite this, very little is known about the effect of school peers on...

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