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Guard Labor: An Essay in Honor of Pranab Bardhan
Bowles, Samuel; Jayadev, Arjun - 2004
We explore the exercise of power in perpetuating status quo institutions. We give empirical examples of the economic importance of power and offer a definition of this elusive term. We then investigate the role of power in a modern capitalist economy, borrowing ideas from the classical...
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Diversity and conflict
Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul. H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2018
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058636
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Diversity and conflict
Eren Arbath, Cemal; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2019
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity, rather than fractionalization or polarization across ethnic groups, has been pivotal to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012385443
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Introducing HiSCoD: A new gateway for the study of historical social conflict
Chambru, Cédric; Maneuvrier-Hervieu, Paul - 2022
Social conflict pervades human society and fulfils a number of essential functions in its development and transformation, including the creation of new norms and institutions. The Historical Social Conflict Database (HiSCoD) is an ongoing project designed to provide to scholars and society at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197976
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Workers, warriors and criminals: Social conflict in general equilibrium
Dal Bó, Ernesto; Dal Bó, Pedro - 2004
We analyze how economy-wide forces (i.e.shocks to terms of trade, technology and endowments) affect the intensity of social conflict. We see conflict phenomena such as crime and civil war as involving resource appropriation activities. We show that not all shocks that could make society richer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318947
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Reputation, social identity and social conflict
Smith, John - 2007
We interpret the psychology literature on social identity and examine its implications in a population partially composed of such agents. We model a population of agents from two exogenous and well defined social groups. Agents are randomly matched to play a reduced form bargaining game. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266354
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Rationality as a barrier to peace: micro-evidence from Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2007
Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the available micro-level information about the people who are involved in these conflicts. We address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277297
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Political Institutions and Growth Collapses
Panizza, Ugo; Gaviria, Alejandro; Stein, Ernesto H.; … - 2000
This paper tests whether Rodrik`s (1999) results that institutions for conflict management are associated with the ability to react to economic shocks are robust to different ways of defining the quality of such institutions. We measure the quality of conflict management institutions with two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327068
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A 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Kenya including malaria epidemiological and agroecological zones
Hamad Mohammed, Zuhal Elnour; Siddig, Khalid; Grethe, Harald - 2022
This paper documents the development of a 2019 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Kenya. A special feature of this SAM … the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (e.g., the economic survey 2021 and the 2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census …), the Central Bank of Kenya (i.e., the Diaspora Remittances Survey), the Kenya Ministry of Health (i.e., the Kenya Malaria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494939
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Erasing Class/ (re)Creating Ethnicity: Jobs, Politics, Accumulation and Identity in Kenya
wa Githinji, Mwangi - 2012
examine the relationship between employment, wages and ethnicity in Africa via a case study of Kenya. I challenge the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457016