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support more radical factions and more radical attitudes towards the conflict. This effect is temporary, however, and vanishes …
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Whereas most of the world has experienced decreasing fertility during the past half century, Israel has experienced a puzzling mix of trends. Completed fertility has decreased sharply in some ethnic-religious groups (Mizrahi Jews and non-Bedouin Arabs) and increased moderately in other groups...
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Resources to fight the War for Independence from Great Britain (1775-1783) were to be provided to the U.S. Congress by …, largely flowed to where the theater of war was located. Thus a geographic imbalance in revenue and spending arose. Because …
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This paper uses the 2000 Census 1-in-6 sample to look at the long-term impact of Vietnam-era military service. Instrumental Variables estimates using draft-lottery instruments show post-service earnings losses close to zero in 2000, in contrast with earlier results showing substantial earnings...
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We analyze financial market data in order to produce an ex-ante assessment of the economic consequences of war with …'s price provides a plausible estimate of the probability of war. The spot oil price has moved closely with the Saddam Security …, suggesting that war raises oil prices by around $10 per barrel. Futures prices imply that markets expect these large immediate …
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This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
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The nullification of slave wealth after the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) was one of the largest episodes of wealth … wealth by 1870, relative to households that had been equally wealthy before the war. Yet, the sons of former slaveholders …
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fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …
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Are states led by women less prone to conflict than states led by men? We answer this question by examining the effect … of female rule on war among European polities over the 15th-20th centuries. We utilize gender of the first born and … more likely to engage in war than polities led by kings. Moreover, the tendency of queens to engage as aggressors varied by …
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novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction during the Vietnam War. We estimate that a 10 percentage point (2 … the war, and are not present for women or men who did serve. These findings add to the evidence on the lasting …
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