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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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This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the … existing literature, we formulate two hypotheses: (1) state-based conflict has a negative association with productive and … entrepreneurship. We test these hypotheses by drawing on several state-based conflict and entrepreneurship measures, using appropriate …
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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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Several high-profile news stories have linked post-September 11 (9/11) combat service to violent crime among veterans. Nevertheless, there is scant causal evidence for this claim. We exploit the administrative procedures by which U.S. Armed Forces senior commanders conditionally randomly assign...
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the start of the war with those who responded shortly after the conflict began and applying difference-in-differences (DiD …) models over time, we find a significant decline in the outcome after the war started. These findings provide new evidence on … how armed conflicts influence social trust and well-being among young people in a country not directly involved in the war. …
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We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …
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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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. -- War ; conflict ; trade ; trade-conflict relationship ; interdependence ; incomplete information game ; signaling … probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the … inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite of the conclusion reached by Gartzke et al. (2001), who reject the …
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