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War and Relatedness
Spolaore, Enrico - 2009
to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463555
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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900
Iyigun, Murat - 2017
We investigate the long-run effects of cooling on conflict. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which we merge with historical temperature data. We show that cooling is associated with increased conflict....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455647
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The Topography of Nations
Allen, Treb - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
quantitative framework for characterizing the equilibrium evolution of national boundaries in a world with a rich geography. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421232
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Effects of Restrictive Abortion Legislation on Cohort Mortality Evidence from 19th Century Law Variation
Lahey, Joanna; Wanamaker, Marianne H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
frequently. These mortality effects diminish with age, potentially reversing at older ages as a result of disease immunity or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334419
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Bases, Bullets and Ballots : the Effect of U.S. Military Aid on Political Conflict in Colombia
Dube, Oeindrila - 2014
Does foreign military assistance strengthen or further weaken fragile states facing internal conflict? Aid may strengthen the state by bolstering its repressive capacity vis-à-vis armed non-state actors, or weaken it if resources are diverted to these very groups. We examine how U.S. military...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458438
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463089
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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 … have to contend, and on the permanence of the outcome of a potential war. The lecture also contrasts the possibilities for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468514
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"Fifty-four Forty or Fight!"
Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003
This paper develops an explanation for historical differences in the ways in which territorial disputes between sovereign states have been resolved. The main innovation in the analysis is to allow for three possible equilibria: ú an unfortified border; ú a fortified but peaceful border; and ú...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469063
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When to Appease and When to Punish : Hitler, Putin, and Hamas
Levine, David K.; Ohanian, Lee E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Much has been written about deterrence, the process of committing to punish an adversary to prevent an attack. But in sufficiently rich environments where attacks evolve over time, formulating a strategy involves not only deterrence but also appeasement, the less costly process of not responding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512134
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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
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 years after the end of the Civil War depends on age at imprisonment …. Among survivors to 1900, those younger than 30 at imprisonment faced higher older age mortality and morbidity and worse …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462073