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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282217
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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
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283950
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286855
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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
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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
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552949
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268686
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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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Long-term effects of forced migration
Sarvimäki, Matti; Uusitalo, Roope; Jäntti, Markus - 2009
We study the long-term effects of human displacement using individual-level panel data on forced migrants and comparable non-migrants. After World War II, Finland ceded a tenth of its territory to the Soviet Union and resettled the entire population living in these areas in the remaining parts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271229