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Retail Trade by Federal Reserve District, 1919 to 1939 : A Statistical History

Park, Haelim M. - 2010

Soon after beginning operations, the Federal Reserve established a nationwide network for collecting information about the economy. In 1919, the Fed began tabulating data by about retail sales, which it viewed as a fundamental measure of consumption. From 1920 until 1929, the Federal Reserve...

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Landmines and Spatial Development

Chiovelli, Giorgio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2018

Landmine contamination affects the lives of millions in many conflict-ridden countries long after the cessation of hostilities. Yet, little research exists on its impact on post-conflict recovery. In this study, we explore the economic consequences of landmine clearance in Mozambique, the only...

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The Financial Sector in Burundi

Nkurunziza, Janvier D. - 2012

This study investigates the performance of the financial system in Burundi in mobilizing and allocating resources … Burundi, it takes the view that unlocking the financing constraint could alleviate other impediments to growth and poverty …

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Comparing Economic and Social Interventions to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence : Evidence from Central and Southern Africa

Iyengar, Radha - 2011

conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in … in household authority, with the Burundi study showing statistical significance. In South Africa there was a large …, albeit short lived decrease in domestic violence. In Burundi there was small reduction but trends suggest a longer duration …

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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

How do elites mobilize commoners to participate in a war? How does war mobilization affect elite power after the war? We argue that these two questions are interconnected, as elites mobilize war often because war benefits them. We demonstrate these relationships using the setting of the...

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The Crime Effect of Refugees

Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Mocan, Naci; Tumen, Semih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in Syria. Using a novel administrative data source on the flow of offense records to prosecutors' offices in 81 provinces of the country each year, and utilizing the staggered...

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Black Americans' Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation : New Evidence on the Significance of 40 Acres

Collins, William J.; Holtkamp, Nicholas C.; Wanamaker, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The US Civil War ended in 1865 without the distribution of land or compensation to those formerly enslaved--a decision often seen as a cornerstone of racial inequality. We build a dataset to observe Black households' landholdings in 1880, a key component of their wealth, alongside a sample of...

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Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs : A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Follow-Up

Costa, Dora L. - 2010

Debilitating events could leave either frailer or more robust survivors, depending on the extent of scarring and mortality selection. The majority of empirical analyses find frailer survivors. I find heterogeneous effects. Among severely stressed former Union Army POWs, which effect dominates 35...

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Understanding Transitory Rainfall Shocks, Economic Growth and Civil Conflict

Miguel, Edward - 2010

Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004) use rainfall variation as an instrument to show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. In the reduced form regression they find that higher rainfall is associated with less conflict. Ciccone (2010) claims that...

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