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This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using … three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of … women's likelihood of employment increased as a consequence of the conflict. …
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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 varying intensity. Our difference-in-differences analysis shows that … women in villages affected by civil conflict increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931655
This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using … three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of … women’s likelihood of employment increased as a consequence of the conflict. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395429
enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU …
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This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267547
We exploit a historical experiment that occurred in Czechoslovakia after World War Two to study the drivers of social capital accumulation in an extremely unfavorable environment. Between 1945 and 1948, the Sudetenland became the scene of ethnic cleansing, with the expulsion of nearly three...
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unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint …, societal norms, and institutions. Religion affects physical capital accumulation by influencing thrift and financial …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269143
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762252
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566684