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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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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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Persistence of civil wars

Acemoglu, Daron; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2009

A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the …

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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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Job Search with Nonparticipation

Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2004

these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …

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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations

Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - 2002

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

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A good time to stay out? Strikes and the business cycle

Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008

In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...

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War and endogenous democracy

Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2008

Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international conflicts on domestic political institutions....

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Violent conflict and inequality

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

This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes in income inequality. Our results indicate rising...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269837

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