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Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention : Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies
Dell, Melissa - 2016
This study uses discontinuities in U.S. strategies employed during the Vietnam War to estimate their causal impacts. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987131
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Cross-Border Media and Nationalism : Evidence from Serbian Radio in Croatia
DellaVigna, Stefano - 2011
How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII: the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a decade of peace, cross-border nationalistic Serbian radio triggers ethnic hatred towards Serbs in Croatia. Mostly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125761
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Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2017
The increase in army size observed in early modern times changed the way states conducted wars. Starting in the late 18th century, states switched from mercenaries to a mass army by conscription. In order for the population to accept to fight and endure war, the government elites began to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955943
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Nationalism and Economic Exchange : Evidence from Shocks to Sino-Japanese Relations
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2014
We study the impact of nationalism and interstate frictions on international economic relations by analyzing market reaction to adverse shocks to Sino-Japanese relations in 2005 and 2010. Japanese companies with high China exposure suffer relative declines during each event window; a symmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054515
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Population Increase, Extralegal Appropriation, and the End of Colonialism
Iyigun, Murat; Grossman, Herschel I. - 2022
Between 1946 and 1976, the European powers granted independence to all of their large colonies in Africa and Southeast Asia. This paper attempts to provide an economic explanation for this remarkable ending to the era of colonialism. The main theoretical innovation is to consider the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324618
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The War at Home : Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability
Conley, Dalton - 2011
Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military …: household and family life. In the present study we use the same IV approach to model the causal impact of Vietnam- era military …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131668
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The Impact of College Education on Geographic Mobility : Identifying Education Using Multiple Components of Vietnam Draft Risk
Malamud, Ofer - 2010
attainment induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War. We use national and state-level induction risk to identify … risk on out-of-state migration also imply that the Vietnam War led to substantial geographic churning in the national labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137017
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Moving Out of Agriculture : Structural Change in Vietnam
McCaig, Brian - 2013
We examine the role of structural change in the economic development of Vietnam from 1990 to 2008. Structural change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073197
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Does Economic Growth Reduce Corruption? Theory and Evidence from Vietnam
Bai, Jie - 2013
-industry heterogeneity in growth rates within Vietnam to test empirically whether growth leads to lower corruption. We find that it does. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075412
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The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality : Estimates from the Vietnam-Era Draft Lottery
Conley, Dalton - 2009
Research on the effects of Vietnam military service suggests that Vietnam veterans experienced significantly higher … mortality than both non-Vietnam veterans and the civilian population at large. These results, however, may be biased by non …. The present study generates unbiased estimates of the causal impact of Vietnam era draft eligibility on male mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158538