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affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. -- conflict ; violence ; war … conflict-affected countries. This module will enable researchers to address specific violence-related issues comparatively … survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special …
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Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and … socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within … countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the casual impact of conflict in Nigeria on welfare related outcomes. The 2009 …
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participation rates (FLFPR) in South Asia. We merge Labor Force Surveys (LFSs) from Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, India, and Pakistan to … exploit the availability of geographical level data on exposure to violence, comparing administrative units exposed to attacks … points, on average. Violence has less impact on male labor participation, thus widening the gender labor participation gap …
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Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions since its independence leading to significant … loss of life. In this paper, we explore the average effect of exposure to violent conflict generally on labor supply in … agriculture. Using a nationally representative panel dataset for Nigeria from 2010-2015, in combination with armed conflict data …
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war outcome and, above a certain size, contributes to the escalation of violence. Given the characteristics of the …We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor … involved in the conflict by transferring financial resources to its origin country. We find that the diaspora influences the …
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We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment … in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of all attacks or 2,964 terror deaths. Exploring mechanisms, we …
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We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they disrupt established trading routes and economic relationships with suppliers and customers....
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We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect … conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and estimation techniques for empirical studies. Our review of the … empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict shows that none of the previous studies proposes a compelling …
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We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent … negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohort of children. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal …, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying intensity. Our difference-in-differences analysis shows that …
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violent conflict on female students' enrollment rates. We find that a doubling of average killings in a district-year leads to … an alternative definition of conflict from a different dataset. Gender differential responses are more negative for lower …
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