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Do Perceptions of Economic Well-Being Predict the Onset of War and Peace?
Swee, Eik - 2019
perception of economic well-being, possibly influenced by such tactics, predicts war and peace onset. Using unique data … war onset during periods of rebel recruitment, and with earlier peace onset in general. These results hold regardless of … suggest that civilian perception of well-being ought to be considered seriously as a determinant of war and peace …
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Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict? Understanding the Decision of an Opposition Group
Jetter, Michael - 2016
the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict … and their choice between peace, a terrorism campaign, and open conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988126
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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 negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohort of children. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912777
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Military Intervention Via Drone Strikes
Mahmood, Rafat - 2019
We study the 420 US drone strikes in Pakistan from 2006-2016, isolating causal effects on terrorism, anti-US sentiment, and radicalization via an instrumental variable strategy based on wind. Drone strikes are suggested to encourage terrorism in Pakistan, bearing responsibility for 16 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870163
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Money Can't Buy Love But Can it Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation
Brück, Tilman - 2014
detailed PEACE II accounts. Noting potential selection and omitted variables biases, we implement two-stage random effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046661
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Can War Foster Cooperation?
Bauer, Michal - 2016
cohesion we document need not promote broader peace …
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An Injury to One is an Injury to All : Terrorism's Spillover Effects on Bilateral Trade
Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2017
In this paper we investigate whether the effects of terrorism in one country spillover to affect trade in neighboring nations. Using a sample of more than 160 countries from 1976 to 2014, we report robust evidence that terrorist attacks in a nation's contiguous neighbors significantly reduce...
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Peacefully Demobilizing Rebels : Identity, Emotional Cues, and the Farc
Aparicio, Juan Pablo; Jetter, Michael; Parsons, … - 2023
In the early 2000s, the Colombian government aired messages during games of the national football team, urging FARC rebels to demobilize. We first study the strategy's effectiveness, leveraging game dates, kick-off times, and spatial-temporal variation in rain-induced signal strength in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345131
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How Civilian Attitudes Respond to the State's Violence : Lessons from the Israel- Gaza Conflict
Loewenthal, Amit; Miaari, Sami H.; Abrahams, Alexei - 2022
little evidence to suggest that Israeli security policies towards the Gaza Strip have any substantial lasting effect on Gazan … therefore call into question the logic of Israel's continued security policies towards Gaza, while also raising the possibility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084064
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Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence
Paserman, M. Daniele; Jaeger, David A. - 2021
In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a statistically significant relationship between Israeli fatalities claimed by groups associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318040