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Persistence of Civil Wars
Acemoglu, Daron - 2009
A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the persistence of civil wars. The civilian government can successfully defeat rebellious factions only by creating a relatively strong army. In weakly-institutionalized polities this...
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Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries
Keller, Katarina R. I. - 2013
Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that...
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Diasporas and Conflict
Mariani, Fabio - 2016
We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...
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Weighing the Military Option : The Effects of Wartime Conditions on Investments in Human Capital
Duncan, Brian - 2016
Military service is an important vehicle through which young Americans invest in their human capital. Using internal military data, we show that county-level exposure to U.S. combat casualties during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars decreased the supply of new soldiers in that county, and changed...
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Military Spending and Innovation : Learning from 19th Century World Fair Exhibition Data
Danzer, Alexander; Danzer, Natalia; Feuerbaum, Carsten - 2023
We provide quantitative evidence on the relationship between military spending and innovation in the 19th century. Combining innovation data from world fairs and historical military data across Europe, we show that national military spending is associated with national innovation towards war...
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The Political Economy of Conscription
Poutvaara, Panu - 2013
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, the question emerges why societies choose to rely on it. In this survey we explain the political...
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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America : Overview and Assessment
Ferrer, Ana M. - 2011
turned to Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts (UISAs) as an alternative to traditional systems of unemployment insurance …. UISAs are schemes of individual mandatory savings. Therefore, they smooth income over an individual's life cycle rather than …
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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare : A Dynamic Analysis
Blau, David M. - 2011
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ages, no borrowing constraint, little or no uncertainty, and no institutional restrictions on...
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Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration
Dustmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes savings and asset holdings of immigrants in relation to their return plans. We argue that savings … and asset accumulation may be affected by return plans of immigrants. Further, the way savings and assets are held in the … home- and host country may also be related to future return plans. Thus, comparing savings and assets between immigrants …
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Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil
Robalino, David A. - 2011
characteristic are correlated with more job opportunities. Policy simulations ten suggest that the risk pooling and savings component …
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