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Driving forces behind informal sanctions

Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005

This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...

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Food security and wheat prices in Afghanistan: A distribution-sensitive analysis of household-level impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR …

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The effect of village-based schools: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Afghanistan

Burde, Dana; Linden, Leigh L. - 2012

sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282542

Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity: The experience of Afghan households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012

linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large …. Therefore while conflict may not be the driving factor in overall levels of food insecurity in Afghanistan, it may limit the …

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Are drone strikes effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the dynamics of violence between the United States and the Taliban

Jaeger, David A.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011

Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics of violence involving drone strikes and the … Taliban/Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan from January 2007 to December 2010. We find that drone strikes do not have any … significant impact on terrorist violence in Afghanistan but that drone strikes do have a significant impact on Taliban …

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The Effect of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan

Burde, Dana; Linden, Leigh L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The program significantly increases enrollment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279263

Food Security and Wheat Prices in Afghanistan: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis of Household-Level Impacts

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542045

Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households

D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Mexican immigrants, the labor market and the current population survey: seasonality effects, framing effects, and sensitivity of results

Lozano, Fernando Antonio; Sorensen, Todd A. - 2008

In this paper we compare estimates of immigrants' labor supply assimilation profiles using the Current Population Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORGs). We use a measure that is seemingly consistent across both surveys:...

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Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Liu, Elaine M.; Meng, Juanjuan; Wang, Joseph Tao-yi - 2013

This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that Chinese subjects in our experiments became less accepting of Confucian values, such that they became significantly more risk loving, less loss averse, and more impatient after being...

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