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altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict …
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conflict and makes the ideologues more successful yet worse off. Our results rationalize "imperial peace" - long periods of … conflict. Both ideologues lose in success probability, but gain in expected utility. Elimination of the mercenary increases … stability and social peace in multi-ethnic empires, and explain why the weakening and breakdown of such empires is often …
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affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. -- conflict ; violence ; war …, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual …
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Measuring the economic impact of a war is a daunting task. Common indicators like casualties, infrastructure damages …. This paper proposes a new method to estimate the welfare impact of conflicts and remedy common data constraints in conflict …-affected environments. The method first estimates how agents regard spatial welfare differentials by voting with their feet, using pre-conflict …
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conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and isolates the … mediating pathways for the average male randomly picked from the population. Contrary to the arguments that war fosters … evidence that ACE fosters parochialism, measured by increased opposition to peaceful means of conflict resolution, animosity …
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In many kinds of bilateral negotiations the resolution of the issues at stake has an impact which extends beyond the remits of the parties directly involved (e.g. labour negotiations in sectors of public interest, where a strike would impact on the public at large). Once this is recognised,...
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States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and...
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Internally displaced people (IDPs) constitute a serious economic, social and cultural problem for many countries, including countries in transition. Despite the importance of the problem, there are only a handful of previous studies investigating the issue of labor market outcomes of IDPs. We...
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In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict … detailed PEACE II accounts. Noting potential selection and omitted variables biases, we implement two-stage random effects …
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-existent. -- time series models ; conflict …
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