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Bauer, Michal - 2018

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...

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Migration Responses to Conflict : Evidence from the Border of the American Civil War

Eli, Shari - 2016

the Confederacy lived together prior to the conflict. We study the subsequent migration choices of these Civil War …

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Fertility and Marriage in New York State in the Era of the Civil War

Haines, Michael R.; Guest, Avery M. - 2021

on children ever born. These parity data, along with own-children estimates of age-specific overall and marital fertility … rates, are used to examine the relation of fertility with rural-urban residence, occupation, ethnicity, literacy, and … data provide direct evidence of fertility decline in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century …

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Fertility in New York State in the Civil War Era

Haines, Michael R. - 2010

dates, and types of agricultural economy. The parity data indicate a strong decline in marital fertility during the first … part of the 19th Century; little evidence of fertility control within marriage is found for the oldest women in the sample …. Fertility decline was initially most evident in the urban, more economically developed areas, but eventual levels were equal in …

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Healing the Wounds : Learning from Sierra Leone's Post-War Institutional Reforms

Casey, Katherine - 2012

While its recent history of civil war, chronic poverty and corrupt governance would cause many to dismiss Sierra Leone as a hopeless case, the country's economic and political performance over the last decade has defied expectations. We examine how several factors--including the legacy of war,...

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Start-Up Nation? Slave Wealth and Entrepreneurship in Civil War Maryland

González, Felipe - 2016

Slave property rights yielded a source of collateral as well as a coerced labor force. Using data from Dun and Bradstreet linked to the 1860 census and slave schedules in Maryland, we find that slaveowners were more likely to start businesses prior to the uncompensated 1864 emancipation, even...

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Civil War

Blattman, Christopher; Miguel, Edward - 2021

Most nations have experienced an internal armed conflict since 1960. The past decade has witnessed an explosion of research into the causes and consequences of civil wars, belatedly bringing the topic into the economics mainstream. This article critically reviews this interdisciplinary...

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Can Hearts and Minds Be Bought? The Economics of Counterinsurgency in Iraq

Berman, Eli; Shapiro, Jacob N.; Felter, Joseph - 2021

We develop and test an economic theory of insurgency motivated by the informal literature and by recent military doctrine. We model a three-way contest between violent rebels, a government seeking to minimize violence by mixing service provision and coercion, and civilians deciding whether to...

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First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War

Akresh, Richard - 2017

We analyze long-term impacts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, providing the first evidence of intergenerational impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing years exhibit reduced adult stature, increased likelihood of being overweight, earlier age at first birth, and lower educational...

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The Impact of War on Resource Allocation : 'Creative Destruction' and the American Civil War

Khan, B. Zorina - 2015

What is the effect of wars on industrialization, technology and commercial activity? In economic terms, such events as wars comprise a large exogenous shock to labor and capital markets, aggregate demand, the distribution of expenditures, and the rate and direction of technological innovation....

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