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On the Ends of the State : Stationary Bandits and the Time Horizon in Eastern Congo

Henn, Soeren J.; Mugaruka, Christian M.; Ortiz, Miguel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We show that armed actors refrain from using their power to arbitrarily steal from an economy if, and only if, the armed actors' property rights over stealing from that economy are secure. By 2009, armed actors taxed, administered, and protected various villages in Democratic Republic of the...

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The Nexus of Elites and War Mobilization

Jia, Ruixue; Bai, Ying; Yang, Jiaojiao - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

and after the war. By examining how pre-war elite connections affected where soldiers who were killed came from, and …

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Forging a New Identity : The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen

Costa, Dora L. - 2004

were former slaves. Because most of the black soldiers who served were illiterate farm workers, the war exposed them to a …

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Shame and Ostracism : Union Army Deserters Leave Home

Costa, Dora L. - 2004

During the Civil War not all men served honorably and this was known by everyone in their communities. We study how shame and ostracism affect behavior by examining whether men who deserted from the Union Army, and who faced no legal sanctions once the war was over, returned home or whether they...

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The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa

McGuirk, Eoin - 2017

We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus...

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

Eli, Shari - 2016

migrate according to side, but former Union soldiers were more likely to leave counties with greater Confederate sympathy for …

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Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up

Costa, Dora L. - 2016

, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging. Data collection began almost three decades ago on 40,000 soldiers from the Union Army in the US … large sample of African-American soldiers and an oversampling of soldiers from major US cities have been added. Hundreds of … historical maps containing public health data have been geocoded to place soldiers and their family members in a geospatial …

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Persistent Social Networks : Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life

Costa, Dora L. - 2016

At the end of the U.S Civil War, veterans had to choose whether to return to their prewar communities or move to new areas. The late 19th Century was a time of sharp urban growth as workers sought out the economic opportunities offered by cities. By estimating discrete choice migration models,...

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Patronage Politics and the Development of the Welfare State : Confederate Pensions in the American South

Eli, Shari - 2015

Beginning in the 1880s, southern states introduced pensions for Confederate veterans and widows. They continued to expand these programs through the 1920s, while states outside the region were introducing cash transfer programs for workers, poor mothers, and the elderly. Using legislative...

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Subjecting the ‘Average Joe' to War Theatre Triggers Intimate Partner Violence

Cesur, Resul; Kıbrıs, Arzu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This research is the first to identify the impact of armed conflict exposure for the average male randomly drawn from the population on subsequent intimate partner violence (IPV). We exploit a population-level natural experiment in service location assignment of draftees under Turkey's universal...

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