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On the Production of Victory : Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War

Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021

Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the production of combat success, formalized in a military...

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Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff

Nepal, Apsara - 2018

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent …

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Domestic Violence and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from a Mixed-Race Developing Country

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo - 2010

This study investigates the heterogeneous effects of domestic violence over labor markets in an ethnically fragmented … country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia "excels" in having one of the highest levels of domestic violence … in the region. Anecdotal evidence and empirical evidence suggest that response to domestic violence is not homogeneous …

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Learning the Hard Way : The Effect of Violent Conflict on Student Academic Achievement

Brück, Tilman - 2014

We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). By exploiting within-school variation in the number of conflict-related Palestinian fatalities during...

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The Vanishing Bequest Tax:The Comparative Evolution of Bequest Taxationin Historical Perspective

Bertocchi, Graziella - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Several countries have recently abolished or significantly reduced their taxes on bequests.Bequest taxes, on the other hand, were among the first to be introduced when modernsystems of taxation were developed at the end of the nineteenth century. We propose anexplanation for these facts which is...

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Learning to Participate in Politics : Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2017

This paper provides causal evidence on the importance of socioeconomic circumstances, socialization, and childhood events, in the formation of adult political behaviour and attitudes, using region-by-cohort variation in exposure to the Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany as a quasi-experiment. We...

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Diversity and Conflict

Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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A Theory of Conservative Revivals

Iyigun, Murat - 2018

Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate conservative ideological backlashes and, at other times, progressive social and political movements? We propose an...

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Do Output Contractions Trigger Democratic Change?

Burke, Paul J. - 2010

Does faster economic growth increase pressure for democratic change, or reduce it? Using data for 154 countries for the period 1963-2007, we examine the short-run relationship between economic growth and moves toward and away from greater democracy. To address the potential endogeneity of...

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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 …. Civilian governments whose rents are largely unaffected by civil wars then choose small and weak armies that are incapable of …

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