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Political Instability and Birth Outcomes : Evidence from the 1981 Military Coup in Spain

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa - 2020

We study the effect of exposure to political instability in-utero on health at birth. We exploit the coup d'état that took place in Spain on February 23, 1981. Although short-lived and unsuccessful, the event generated stress and fear among the population, especially in areas that had suffered...

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How Large is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets

Stampini, Marco - 2012

In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most … sector countries are concentrated in Western Africa (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Niger, Senegal and Togo), Central Africa … (Cameroun, Republic of Congo) and Eastern Africa (Kenya, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania), with the addition of Mauritius. Countries …

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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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Police Patrols and Crime

Blanes i Vidal, Jordi - 2018

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that...

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Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval

Brodeur, Abel - 2019

Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...

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Political Instability and Labor Market Institutions

Lucifora, Claudio - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and labor market institutions. We develop a theoretical model in which some features of the political process, by reducing the future yields of policy interventions, induce an incumbent government to choose labor market...

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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2010

We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic …

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Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2010

-democracies, low income countries, and countries in Africa …

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How Do Political Connections of Firms Matter During an Economic Crisis?

Chen, Yutong; Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Sekhri, Sheetal; Sen, … - 2023

We use a new machine learning-enabled, social network based measurement technique to assemble a novel dataset of firms' political connections in India. Leveraging this data along with a long panel of detailed financial transactions of firms, we study how political connections matter during an...

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Two to Tangle : Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896-2000)

Campos, Nauro; Karanasos, Menelaos; Tan, Bin - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...

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