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Climate change, agricultural production and civil conflict : evidence from the Philippines
Crost, Benjamin; Duquennois, Claire; Felter, Joseph; … - 2015
Climate change is predicted to affect global rainfall patterns, but there is mixed evidence with regard to the effect … of rainfall on civil conflict. Even among researchers who argue that rainfall reduces civil conflict, there is … variation in the relationship between rainfall and agricultural production to explore the connection between rainfall and civil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510048
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The transmission of democracy : from the village to the nation-state
Giuliano, Paola; Nunn, Nathan - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696903
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Equality under threat by the talented : evidence from worker-managed firms
Burdín, Gabriel - 2013
Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper revisits that long-standing debate by analyzing the interplay between compensation structure and quit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229493
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Ideological alignment and evidence-based policy adoption
García-Hombrados, Jorge; Jansen, Marcel; Martínez, Ángel - 2024
The implementation of evidence-based policies hinges on the dissemination of evidence to policymakers, a process influenced by the attributes of the sender. We conduct a country-wide RCT in which two ideologically opposite prominent think tanks, two major newspapers, and a research institution...
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Activating change : the role of information and beliefs in social activism
Afridi, Farzana; Basistha, Ahana; Dhillon, Amrita; … - 2023
What motivates individuals to participate in social activism? Do awareness campaigns and information about others' willingness to act play a role? We conduct an online experiment within a survey of nearly 2000 Indian men, focusing on activism to combat health sector fraud during the COVID-19...
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Manufacturing employment and women's agency : evidence from Lesotho 2004-2014
Grogan, Louise Anne - 2022
households in Lesotho. Under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000, the employment of women in ready-made garment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013358737
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Social preferences : fundamental characteristics and economic consequences
Fehr, Ernst; Charness, Gary - 2023
We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences for important economic and political behaviors. We provide, in particular, an overview of the empirically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286648
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Does it pay to work for free? : wage returns and gender differences in the market for volunteers
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2013
identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in rainfall across local area districts in …
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The impact of changing climate on children's nutritional status in Bangladesh
Hanifi, S. M. Manzoor Ahmed; Menon, Nidhiya; … - 2021
varying rainfall jointly. Leveraging a saturated fixed-effects model that controls for annual trends and location …-specific seasonality, and that allows the impacts of temperature to vary non-parametrically while rainfall and humidity have flexible non … also matters. Possible explanations for our findings include consequences of varying heat, humidity, and rainfall on the …
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Financial inclusion, shocks and poverty : evidence from the expansion of mobile money in Tanzania
Abiona, Olukorede; Koppensteiner, Martin Foreaux - 2018
idiosyncratic shocks from variation in rainfall over time and across space in an instrumented DiD methodology. We find that adopter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946908