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We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
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This paper analyzes the fertility effects of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We study the effects of violence on both the … hazard of having a child in the early post-genocide period and on the total number of post-genocide births up to 15 years …-level sex ratio. Results indicate that the genocide had heterogeneous effects on fertility, depending on the type of violence …
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To examine the impact of Rwanda´s 1994 genocide on children´s schooling, the authors combine two cross …-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age … were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with …
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engaged in genocide to a more analytical exploration of why businesses have made the choices they did in the process of their … engagement with genocide. This is also necessary to advance the debate on how to hold businesses accountable for gross human …
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Persecution, pogroms, and genocide have plagued humanity for centuries, costing millions of lives and haunting … causes and consequences of persecution, pogroms, and genocide. Finally, we discuss gaps in the literature and take several …
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is measured exploiting the differential effects of timing of birth and genocide intensity at the household and geographic …
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community that experienced violence during Rwanda's 1994 genocide, I show that individual participation in the violence was …
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How do third-party interventions affect the severity of mass killings? The authors theorize that episodes of mass killing are the consequence of two factors: (1) the threat perceptions of the perpetrators and (2) the cost of implementing genocidal policies relative to other alternatives. To...
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To examine the impact of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide on children’s schooling, the authors combine two cross …-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age … were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763915
Contemporary studies of genocide have found military capabilities to be inconsistent predictors of state …. We hypothesize that unconstrained leaders are more likely to use their putative security forces to initiate genocide and … remain in power. An analysis of state failures that lead to genocide robustly supports the idea that the effect of increased …
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