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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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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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Folklore

Michalopoulos, 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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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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The Forging of a Rebel

Marchais, Gauthier; Mugaruka, Christian M.; Sanchez de … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use variation in exposure to victimization of 1,537 households of eastern Congo for each year of 1990-2013 to examine the formation of preferences to participate in armed groups. In this context, most armed groups are Congolese militia, whose objective is fighting foreign armed groups. We...

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Nomadic Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

McGuirk, Eoin F. - 2020

Arid regions of Africa are expanding by thousands of square kilometers a year, potentially disturbing pastoral routes that have been forged over a long period of time. This disturbance is often said to explain why "herder-farmer" conflicts have erupted in recent years, as pastoralists and...

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Birth Rates and Border Crossings : Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain, and the UK

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010

We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain, and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labor supply shocks, as predicted by earlier changes in...

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Growing State-Federal Conflicts in Environmental Policy : The Role of Market-Based Regulation

Williams, Roberton C, III. - 2010

In recent years, cases in which state governments chose to override federal environmental regulation with tighter regulations of their own have become increasingly common, even for pollutants that have substantial spillovers across states. This paper argues that this change arose at least in...

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National Borders, Conflict and Peace

Spolaore, Enrico - 2009

This paper reviews the economics approach to conflict and national borders. The paper provides a summary of ideas and concepts from the economics literature on the size of nations; illustrates them within an analytical framework where populations engage in conflict over borders and resources,...

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