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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
experience. In contrast to the East Asian experience, none of the recent growth accelerations in Latin America, Africa, or South … rapid within-sector labor productivity growth (Latin America) or growth-increasing structural change (Africa), but rarely … explain this anomaly by arguing that the forces that promoted structural change in Africa originated on the demand side …
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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia
Krishna, Pravin - 2010
This chapter studies the differential effects that trade openness may have on leading and lagging regions within a country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is smaller in lagging states. The expected transmission...
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Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition : Evidence from South Asia
Vogl, Tom - 2012
Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger...
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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
Arunachalam, Raj - 2010
This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...
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Missing Unmarried Women
Anderson, Siwan - 2015
. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa …
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Stopping Suicide Attacks : Optimal Strategies and Unintended Consequences
McBride, Michael T. - 2010
Governments fighting terrorists have many tactical options, yet these options often yield unintended and counterproductive consequences. This paper models a terrorist organization, a religious group from which the terrorists recruit suicide bombers, and the society in which the terrorists are...
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Counter-Suicide-Terrorism : Evidence from House Demolitions
Benmelech, Efraim - 2010
This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We …
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Can Militants Use Violence to Win Public Support? Evidence from the Second Intifada
Jaeger, David A. - 2010
This paper investigates whether attacks against Israeli targets help Palestinian factions gain public support. We link individual level survey data to the full list of Israeli fatalities during the period of the Second Intifada (2000-2006), and estimate a flexible discrete choice model for...
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Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism
Benmelech, Efraim - 2010
We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical …
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Do Citizens Want the Truth About Terrorist Threats Regardless of the Consequences?
Smith, V. Kerry - 2010
This paper proposes the use of consumers' preferences in formulating policies for keeping secret information about terrorist activities and threats that might compromise future security. We report the results from two surveys indicating that people have clear preferences for full disclosure of...
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