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Casella, Alessandra - 2020

the treatment with direct communication) or to the mediator (in the mediation treatment), before making their demands or … a computer implementing the optimal mediation program. While the theoretical result refers to the best (i.e. most … peaceful) equilibrium under mediation, multiple equilibria exist, and the best equilibrium is particularly vulnerable to small …

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Folklore

Michalopulos, Stelios - 2019

Folklore is the collection of traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth. This vast expressive body, studied by the corresponding discipline of folklore, has evaded the attention of economists. In this study we do four things that...

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Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor : Global Evidence

Cao, Yiming; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; Giuliano, Paola; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are believed to have generated a value system that is conducive to revenge-taking and violence. We test this idea at a global scale using a combination of ethnographic records,...

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Randomization for Causality, Ethnography for Mechanisms : Illiquid Savings for Liquor in an Autarkic Society

Godoy, Ricardo A.; Karlan, Dean; Zinman, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

What should researchers do when confronted with surprising results? Financial access innovations usually leave "temptation" spending unaffected or reduced. However, we found that promotion of savings lockboxes in a largely autarkic society increased alcohol consumption and blood pressure,...

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Concessions, Violence, and Indirect Rule : Evidence from the Congo Free State

Lowes, Sara - 2020

All colonial powers granted concessions to private companies to extract natural resources during the colonial era. Within Africa, these concessions were characterized by indirect rule and violence. We use the arbitrarily defined borders of rubber concessions granted in the north of the Congo...

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Ethnographic and Field Data in Historical Economics

Lowes, Sara - 2020

This chapter will cover recent research in historical economics that uses ethnographic data and data from surveys and lab experiments. The study of historical economics, particularly outside of non-Western countries, has been constrained by availability of historical data. However, recent work...

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Ethnographic Records, Folklore, and AI

Michalopulos, Stelios - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

In this Handbook chapter, I examine how integrating ethnographic and folklore records has shaped research on culture and economics in the 21st century. Advances in text analysis techniques and the incorporation of historical and satellite data have transformed the field. I explore how George...

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Paths to the Periphery

Robinson, James Alan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

My research suggests that world inequality is explained by the incidence of extractive and inclusive institutions. But why do some countries have extractive institutions? I distinguish between two main reasons; first, power relations; second, the "normative order." Normative orders provide...

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Peace and War in Territorial Disputes

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2004

Why do sovereign states sometimes fail to settle territorial disputes peacefully? Also, why do even peaceful settlements of territorial disputes rarely call for the resulting border to be unfortified? This paper explores a class of answers to these questions that is based on the following...

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Choosing Between Peace and War

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003

Although most disputes between groups of people are settled peacefully, sometimes disputes result in war. This lecture uses historical examples to illustrate how the ability to negotiate a credible peaceful settlement of a dispute between sovereign states, typically a dispute over the control of...

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