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This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and … sites to more accurately measure a child's war exposure. War-exposed children in both countries have lower height-for-age Z …-scores, with the children in the war-instigating and losing country (Eritrea) suffering more than the winning nation (Ethiopia …
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This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...
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private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a form of multiplayer war of attrition …
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We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups. The resource is allocated by a composite state institution according to relative ethnic control; hence the ethnic groups contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The...
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war outcome and, above a certain size, contributes to the escalation of violence. Given the characteristics of the … makes both of them better off than war. We then identify the characteristics of the economy such that the diaspora acts as a …
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This paper analyses the effects of disease and war on the accumulation of human and physical capital. We employ an … stationary war losses and premature adult mortality. If parents are altruistic and their sub-utility function for own consumption …
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We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...
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We introduce and study the problem of manipulation of choice behavior. In a class of two-stage models of decision making, with the agent's choices determined by three "psychological variables," we imagine that a subset of these variables can be selected by a "manipulator." To what extent does...
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This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
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The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...
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