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Ethnic fragmentation, conflict, displaced persons and human trafficking: An empirical analysis

Akee, Randall K. Q.; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2010

fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …

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Should easier access to international credit replace foreign aid?

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Lahiri, Sajal; Younas, Javed - 2011

We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...

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Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

ultimate determinants of conflict. However, fractionalization in all its demographic forms is endogenous in the long run. In … the relationship between fractionalization and the propensity of internal conflict statistically insignificant. Finally …

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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys

Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …

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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...

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Violent conflict and inequality

Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010

around five years after the end of a conflict, it declines again to pre-war levels within the end of the first post …-war period. Lagged effects of conflict and only subsequent adjustments of redistributive policies in the period of post …

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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?

Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.

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

Rotte, Ralph; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

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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International terrorism, political instability and the escalation effect

Campos, Nauro F.; Gassebner, Martin - 2009

What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and political conditions did little to change the fact that existing econometric estimates diverge...

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The evolution of secularization: Cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence

Bar-El, Ronen; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010

This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II - ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...

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