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The long-run labor-market consequences of civil war: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru

Galdo, Jose - 2010

This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the...

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Disease environment and civil conflicts

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe; Valmori, Simona - 2011

This paper tests the hypothesis that a high and persistent exposure to infectious diseases increases the likelihood of civil conflicts. Diseases that are difficult to prevent and treat may reduce the opportunity costs of violent activities, both directly and indirectly. The analysis exploits new...

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Democratization, violent social conflicts, and growth

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 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 reported...

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The impact of armed conflict on economic performance: Evidence from Rwanda

Serneels, Pieter; Verpoorten, Marijke - 2012

Important gaps remain in the understanding of the economic consequences of civil war. Focusing on the conflict in Rwanda in the early 90s, and using micro data to carry out econometric analysis, this paper finds that households and localities that experienced more intense conflict are lagging...

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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor

Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor …

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Health and civil war in rural Burundi

Bundervoet, Tom; Verwimp, Philip; Akresh, Richard - 2007

We combine household survey data with event data on the timing and location of armed conflicts to examine the impact of Burundi's civil war on children's health status. The identification strategy exploits exogenous variation in the war's timing across provinces and the exposure of children's...

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Civil wars beyond their borders: the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees

Baez, Javier E. - 2008

Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and thousands were forcibly uprooted from their homes. Over the course of a few months, Kagera - a...

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Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...

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Does conflict disrupt growth? Evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance

Polachek, Solomon W.; Sevastianova, Daria - 2010

Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do different types of conflict affect country growth...

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Rural windfall or a new resource curse? coca, income, and civil conflict in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2007

Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. Even legally traded commodities such as oil and timber have been linked to civil war. On the other...

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