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From Learning to Doing : Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Guinea-Bissau

Caeiro, Rute Martins - 2019

This paper analyzes the role of social networks in the diffusion of knowledge and adoption of cultivation techniques, from trainees to the wider community, in the context of an extension project in Guinea-Bissau. In order to test for social learning, we exploit a detailed census of households...

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The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa : Results from the CREO Study in Guinea-Bissau (Comprehensive Review of Education Outcomes)

Boone, Peter David - 2013

We conducted a survey covering 20% of villages with 200-1000 population in rural Guinea-Bissau. We interviewed household heads, care-givers of children, and their teachers and schools. We analysed results from 9,947 children, aged 7-17, tested for literacy and numeracy competency. Only 27% of...

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Causes and Consequences of Illicit Drug Epidemics

Moore, Timothy J.; Pacula, Rosalie Liccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Large and rapid upswings in illicit drug use display similar properties to infectious disease epidemics. In this chapter, we review research to understand what causes drug epidemics and how they end. Drug market actors are subject to both positive and negative reinforcement that lead to rapid,...

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Economic and Non-Economic Factors in Violence : Evidence from Organized Crime, Suicides and Climate in Mexico

Baysan, Ceren - 2018

Organized intergroup violence is almost universally modeled as a calculated act motivated by economic factors. In contrast, it is generally assumed that non-economic factors, such as an individual's emotional state, play a role in many types of interpersonal violence, such as "crimes of...

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Impact of Violent Crime on Risk Aversion : Evidence from the Mexican Drug War

Brown, Ryan - 2017

Whereas attitudes towards risk are thought to play an important role in many decisions over the life-course, factors that affect those attitudes are not fully understood. Using longitudinal survey data collected in Mexico before and during the Mexican war on drugs, we investigate how an...

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Kingpin Approaches to Fighting Crime and Community Violence : Evidence from Mexico's Drug War

Lindo, Jason M. - 2015

This study considers the effects of the kingpin strategy, an approach to fighting organized crime in which law-enforcement efforts focus on capturing the leaders of criminal organizations, on community violence in the context of Mexico's drug war. Newly constructed historical data on...

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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development

Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public … interests of the two land classes, we find, based on 30-year panel data describing the democratization of Indian villages, that … democratization in villages with a larger landless population share shifted resources away from public irrigation, secondary schools …

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Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy

Magistretti, Giacomo; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 …

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Voting for Democracy : Chile's Plebiscito and the Electoral Participation of a Generation

Kaplan, Ethan - 2019

eligibles in other upstream elections. Since less educated voters tended to support Chile's governing left-wing coalition, we … argue that the plebiscite contributed to the emergence of one party rule the twenty years following democratization …

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Federal Institutions and the Democratic Transition : Learning from South Africa

Inman, Robert P. - 2008

We present a model of a peaceful transition from autocracy to democracy using federal governance as a constitutional means to protect the economic interests of the once ruling elite. Under "democratic federalism" the constitution creates an annual policy game where the new majority and the elite...

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