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concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …
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more likely to accept using violence for achieving political goals, consistent with the economic model of crime. We also … culturally distanced countries in Africa and Asia appear more likely to view using violence for political goals as justified … transnational terrorist attacks in OECD countries, we show that the population attitudes towards violence and terror determine the …
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has claimed more than 40,000 lives in the last 5 years. In this chapter I document how this escalation of violence has led … Mexicans living close to the northern border to migrate to the United States. Using data from the American Community Survey to … southern states have seen the largest increases in Mexican migration from 2005 to 2010. I also show that these new migrants are …
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Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime can...
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has the violence against civilians over the period 1989-2010. Evidence on the participation of non-state combatants is …
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Violence, as a human security threat, constitutes a core public health issue. Finally, in an era of globalized threats … requiring international cooperation, the discussion focuses on the interstate spillover effects of violence, or in other words …” in the 21st century; in particular our analysis focuses on the implications of the violence case study for …
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Crime has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of this paper is to set forth a model – the economics of crime monitoring model (ECM-Model) – to evaluate the impact of crime on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260581
This paper provides evidence for a particular channel through which sustained terrorism in rural areas may affect growth in developing countries. Using micro-level data from agricultural surveys during the period of insurgency in Punjab (India), I find significant negative effects of terrorism...
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This work is a PhD dissertation, written at the Department of Economics, McGill University. The thesis offers a new framework for inflation as a process of restructuring. Contrary to existing theories of inflation, which tend to take structure and institutions as given for the purpose of...
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The purpose of study is to deliberate upon the impacts of television advertising on children & to identify those critical impacts which lead to behavioral and eating disorder in children. Impacts of TV advertising were identified as unnecessary purchasing, low nutritional food and materialism. A...
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