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makes Angolan war veterans more likely to participate in local collective action twelve years after the end of the war. This …
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How do production firms adapt to civil war? The answer to this question will inform the potential for economic … country's civil war to argue that successful wartime firms continually adapt their supply chain structures in response to a …-level explanation for, and also a conditioning of, the generally accepted view that industries that survive civil war tend to be non …
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We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where academic research has started to establish stylized facts and where methodological and knowledge gaps remain. We focus our review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime...
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studying the effects of elimination vis-à-vis survival of Polish elites during World War II. Our focus is on the Polish …
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Collecting public opinion data is challenging in the shadow of war. And yet accurate public opinion is crucial … challenges facing polling in war: under-coverage and response bias. We highlight these challenges in the context of the Russia …- Ukraine war, drawing on original panel survey data tracing the attitudes of the same people prior to and after Russia's full …
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survey from Nepal combined with 35 years of rainfall and temperature data, we model migration and agricultural production … increasing uncertainty in weather patterns and a warming climate increase outmigration in rural Nepal. These results are in line …
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We propose two new concepts, of non-state sovereign entrepreneurs and the non-territorial sovereign organizations they form, and relate them to issues pertaining to state sovereignty, governance failures, and violent social conflict over the appropriation of the powers that accrue to states in...
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Conflict depletes all forms of human and social capital, as well as supporting institutions. The scale of the human damage can overwhelm public action, as there are many competing priorities and resources are often insufficient. What then should be the priorities for 'post-conflict' policy?...
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This paper provides causal evidence on early-life exposure to war on mental health status in adulthood. Using an … instrumental variable strategy, the evidence indicates that early-life exposure to bombing during the American war in Vietnam has … of sensitivity checks. The negative effects of war are similar for both men and women. These findings add to the evidence …
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