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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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Higher order risk preferences: new experimental measures, determinants and field behavior

Schneider, Sebastian O.; Sutter, Matthias - 2020

We use a novel method to elicit and measure higher order risk preferences (prudence and temperance) in an experiment with 658 adolescents. In line with theoretical predictions, we find that higher order risk preferences - particularly prudence - are strongly related to adolescents' field...

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Being poorer than the rest of the neighbourhood : relative deprivation and problem behaviour of youth

Nieuwenhuis, Jaap; Ham, Maarten van; Yu, Rongqin; … - 2016

According to the neighbourhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighbourhood wealth and youths' problem behaviour. It is often assumed that there are more problems in deprived neighbourhoods, but there are also reports of higher rates of behavioural problems in more...

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Present bias for monetary and dietary rewards: evidence from Chinese teenagers

Cheung, Stephen L.; Tymula, Agnieszka; Wang, Xueting - 2020

Economists model self-control problems through time-inconsistent preferences. Empirical tests of these preferences largely rely on experimental elicitation methods using monetary rewards, with several recent studies failing to find present bias for money. In this paper, we compare estimates of...

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The bottom 20 % : early career paths of adolescents with low GPA

Hansen, Jörgen; Kristensen, Nicolai; Andersen, Henrik L. - 2020

Across nations, large proportions of younger birth cohorts obtain no professional qualications. Using a structural dynamic approach, we analyze policies targeted adolescents who leave grade nine with a GPA in the bottom 20%. We find that preparatory courses, offered to young people who are...

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Relative age effect on European adolescents' social network

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils' (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students' social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey and use an instrumental variables approach to account for...

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Younger and dissatisfied? : relative age and life-satisfaction in adolescence

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction gaps in adolescence. To this end, we analyse data from the multi-country Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey. We find evidence that relative age...

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