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What Remains after the Oil Boom Is Over?

Jelnov, Pavel - 2019

the literature that explores cultural changes as a result of exogenous events. I use the oil crisis of the 1970s as a … for men. The probability to be never-married decreases in the American oil-producing areas immediately after the shock …. This effect persists after the oil boom is over but longer for men than for women. …

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Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas

Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2019

This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across … gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed … outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men and women both gain employment in the oil and gas industry during booms …

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Too Much of a Good Thing: Accelerated Growth and Crime

Soares, Rodrigo R.; Souza, Danilo - 2023

We document that oil-producing areas of Brazil experienced increases in crime during the period of increased economic … growth driven by the 2000s oil boom. This challenges the understanding that the impact of income shocks on crime is driven … primarily by the legal status of the market in question. Offshore oil production, refining, and distribution in Brazil are …

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Guns and Butter? Fighting Violence with the Promise of Development

Khanna, Gaurav; Zimmermann, Laura V - 2015

There is growing awareness that development-oriented government policies may be an important counterinsurgency strategy, but existing papers are usually unable to disentangle various mechanisms. Using a regression-discontinuity design, we analyze the impact of one of the world's largest...

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Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War

Bauer, Michal; Fiala, Nathan; Levely, Ian - 2014

The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of...

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Economics of Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Punjab Insurgency

Singh, Prakarsh - 2016

The Punjab Insurgency in India (1978-1993) took the lives of over 20,000 people. Yet, there has been little research on the economic causes and consequences of the conflict in Punjab, which has been classified as a civil war and also an insurgency. In this article, I delve into some of the...

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Civil War, Natural Disaster and Risk Preferences: Evidence from Sri Lankan Twins

Kettlewell, Nathan; Rijsdijk, Fruhling; Siribaddana, Sisira - 2018

We estimate whether risk preferences are affected by traumatic events by using a unique survey of Sri Lankan twins which contains information on individual's exposure to the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, participation as a combatant in the civil war, validated measures of mental health and risk...

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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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Armed conflict and schooling: evidence from the 1994 Rwandan genocide

Akresh, Richard; de Walque, Damien - 2008

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 group´s baseline schooling and exploits variation...

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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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