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Myanmar. In this study, restricting to garment factory neighborhoods, we find that women living near exporting factories are … significantly more likely to be working, have lower tolerance of domestic violence, and are less likely to be victims of domestic … violence. Using distance to the international airport as an instrument for proximity to an exporting factory, we find similar …
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countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the casual impact of conflict in Nigeria on welfare related outcomes. The 2009 … in the North Eastern and Central parts of Nigeria. However, bouts of violent conflict have existed in different … Nigeria using the three waves of the Nigerian General Household Survey (GHS) panel combined with The Armed Conflict Location …
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Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions since its independence leading to significant … agriculture. Using a nationally representative panel dataset for Nigeria from 2010-2015, in combination with armed conflict data …
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Violence and housing insecurity are horrible events that may be intertwined, with violence possibly forcing victims to … circumstances. This study uses national, prospective, longitudinal data from the Journeys Home Survey to examine how violence … experiencing violence and housing insecurity in subsequent periods. The study is one of the first to investigate these …
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socioeconomic factors such as income. We revisit the temperature-violence relationship and show that cash transfers attenuate one …
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This paper studies the causal effect of status differences on moral disengagement and violence. To measure violent … the role of status inequality on violence suggests an important societal cost of economic and social inequalities. …
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victimization surveys and compares the role of individual and family characteristics for five forms of childhood violence, including …, aggravated violence, and domestic abuse; that 30% of young victims of sex and threats will be victimized again; and that the …
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We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent …
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Over the past four decades, more than 2,300 people have been the victims of mass shootings involving a firearm in the United States. Research shows that mass shootings have significant detrimental effects on the direct victims and their families. However, relatively little is known about the...
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high rates of regional violence. But little quantitative evidence exists on the causal relationship between violence and … international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle …-term increases in violence is roughly equal to the explanatory power of long-term economic characteristics like average income and …
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