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Mining and Gender Gaps in India
Guimbeau, Amanda; Ji, James; Menon, Nidhiya; Rodgers, Yana - 2021
This study on the economics of gender differences examines whether the mining industry acts as a blessing or curse for … mining royalties with local groups that support investments in women and children. Findings imply that mineral mining can …
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The Beneficial Impacts of Covid-19 Lockdowns on Air Pollution : Evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
Little evidence currently exists on the effects of COVID-19 on air quality in poorer countries, where most air pollution-linked deaths occur. We offer the first study that examines the pandemic's impacts on improving air quality in Vietnam, a lower-middle income country with worsening air...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823864
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Does the Covid-19 Pandemic Improve Global Air Quality? New Cross-National Evidence on its Unintended Consequences
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020
Despite a growing literature on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, scant evidence currently exists on its impacts on air quality. We offer the first study that provides cross-national evidence on the causal impacts of COVID-19 on air pollution. We assemble a rich database consisting of daily,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828008
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Touch Thee Not : Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2019
We investigate the impact of community power on the practice of untouchability in rural India. We model two-dimensional simultaneous group conflict over social norms, wherein an upper and backward (OBC) caste Hindu bloc contests the 'scheduled' castes (SCs) over the extent to which behavioural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894557
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A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies
Bakshi, Dripto - 2015
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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Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth
Cervellati, Matteo - 2011
This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the 'Third Wave', we find evidence that the effect of democratization is weaker than...
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Rationality as a Barrier to Peace : Micro-Evidence from Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008
Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the available micro-level information about the people who are involved in these conflicts. We address...
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Water Scarcity and Social Conflict
Unfried, Kerstin; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Poser, Tilman - 2022
Climate change and the increasing demand of water intensify the global water cycle, altering the distribution of water in space and time. This is expected to result in wet areas getting wetter and dry areas getting drier (Pan et al., 2015). As water is key to life, water scarcity is likely to...
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Investment Under Company-Level Pacts
Bellmann, Lutz - 2013
arise once specialized investment is made. Therefore, this paper investigates whether such agreements affect firm …-level investment. Based on the IAB Establishment Panel Survey 2001-2010 our estimates reveal that the adoption of a company-level pact … leads to a higher investment rate than in other firms driven by re-investment. However, the Great Recession has damped this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087394
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How to Increase R&D in Transition Economies? Evidence from Slovenia
Svejnar, Jan; Domadenik, Polona; Praanikar, Janez - 2021
Paper addresses the recent initiatives of EU Lisbon Agenda to increase level of R&D expenses in EU Member States by studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and...
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