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Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity : the experience of Afghan households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large …. Therefore while conflict may not be the driving factor in overall levels of food insecurity in Afghanistan, it may limit the … programs. -- Afghanistan ; food security ; conflict ; nutrition ; poverty ; spatial distribution …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548052

Are drone strikes effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? : on the dynamics of violence between the United States and the Taliban

Jaeger, David A.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011

Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …

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Food security and wheat prices in Afghanistan : a distribution-sensitive analysis of household-level impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR … distributions suggest that policy analyses relying solely on OLS estimates may be misleading. -- Afghanistan ; food prices ; wheat …

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The effect of village-based schools : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Afghanistan

Burde, Dana; Linden, Leigh L. - 2012

sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment …). -- Afghanistan ; RCT ; education ; gender …

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Combat, xasualties, and xompensation : evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan

Armey, Laura; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Leeth, John D.; … - 2018

Our research examines the effect of combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan on casualties. We use restricted data … types. Our estimates indicate that overall U.S. military personnel who deployed in an individual year to Iraq or Afghanistan …

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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security

Caucutt, Elizabeth M. (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...

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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006

This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the second half of the 15th century and peaked in the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman...

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The end of destitution

Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009

The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary social investigators and two relatively newly-discovered...

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Catch me if you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...

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How economics helped shape American Judaism

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...

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