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Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...

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The effects of enforcement on illegal markets : evidence from migrant smuggling along the Southwestern border

Gathmann, Christina (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Precious metal prices : a tale of four U.S. recessions

Agnese, Pablo; Garcia-del-Barrio, Pedro; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2023

This paper empirically examines the degree of persistence in four precious metal prices (i.e., gold, palladium, platinum, and silver) during the last four U.S. recessions. Unit root tests and fractional integration techniques suggest that gold still is the most prominent safe haven asset within...

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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor

Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor …

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Guns and butter? : fighting violence with the promise of development

Khanna, Gaurav; Zimmermann, Laura V. - 2015

There is growing awareness that development-oriented government policies may be an important counterinsurgency strategy, but existing papers are usually unable to disentangle various mechanisms. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we analyze the impact of one of the world's largest...

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Trusting former rebels : an experimental approach to understanding reintegration after civil war

Bauer, Michal; Fiala, Nathan; Levely, Ian - 2014

The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of...

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Impact of ethnic civil conflict on migration of skilled labor

Christensen, Julie; Onul, Darius; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 2013). We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting results depending upon if the economy is assumed to be agglomerating in skilled labor or...

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The effect of 3.6 million refugees on crime

Kirdar, Murat G.; López Cruz, Iván G.; Türküm, Betül - 2021

Most studies examining the impact of migrants on crime rates in hosting populations are in the context of economic migrants in developed countries. However, we know much less about the crime impact of refugees in low- and middle-income countries - whose numbers are increasing worldwide. This...

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Civil war, famine and the persistence of human capital: evidence from Tajikistan

Grogan, Louise Anne - 2021

The dissolution of the Soviet Union and 1992-96 Tajik civil war resulted in huge human and economic losses. Nevertheless, contemporary data suggest the persistence of investments in human capital in the region most affected by famine and least favoured since the cessation of hostilities,...

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Explaining post-Cold-War civil conflict among 17 billion models: the importance of history and religion

Jetter, Michael; Mahmood, Rafat; Parmeter, Christopher F.; … - 2020

Model uncertainty remains a persistent concern when exploring the drivers of civil conflict and civil war. Considering a comprehensive set of 34 potential determinants in 175 post-Cold-War countries (covering 98.2% of the world population), we employ stochastic search variable selection (SSVS)...

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