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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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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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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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Persecution, pogroms and genocide : a conceptual framework and new evidence

Becker, Sascha O.; Mukand, Sharun W.; Yotzov, Ivan - 2022

Persecution, pogroms, and genocide have plagued humanity for centuries, costing millions of lives and haunting … causes and consequences of persecution, pogroms, and genocide. Finally, we discuss gaps in the literature and take several …

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Peer effects, fast food consumption and adolescent weight gain

Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - 2015

This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network. We...

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Peers' race in adolescence and voting behavior

Polipciuc, Maria; Cörvers, Frank; Montizaan, Raymond - 2021

Using a representative longitudinal survey of U.S. teenagers, we investigate how peer racial composition in high school affects individual turnout of young adults. We exploit across-cohort, within-school differences in peer racial composition. One within-school standard deviation increase in the...

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Learning hope and optimism : classmate experiences and adolescent development

Fletcher, Jason; Kim, Jinho - 2018

This paper explores individual and contextual factors related to the development of hopeful attitudes during adolescence using a nationally representative study. A key focus is on the experiences of maltreatment by adults, both for the adolescent and his/her classmates. While all types of...

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Better together? : social networks in truancy and the targeting of treatment

Bennett, Magdalena; Bergman, Peter - 2018

Truancy correlates with many risky behaviors and adverse outcomes. We use detailed administrative data on by-class absences to construct social networks based on students who miss class together. We simulate these networks and use permutation tests to show that certain students systematically...

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Peers, gender, and long-term depression

Giulietti, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2020

This study investigates whether exposure to peer depression in adolescence affects own depression in adulthood. We find a significant long-term depression peer effect for females but not for males in a sample of U.S. adolescents who are followed into adulthood. An increase of one standard...

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Parents, neighbors and youth crime

Díaz, Carlos; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2020

prediction of our model, this evidence reveals an important role of parents in mediating the impact of neighborhoods on youth …

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