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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...

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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

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...

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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

Tax Evasion in Kenya and Tanzania:Evidence from Missing Imports

Levin, Jörgen; Widell, Lars - 2007

In this paper we estimate the amount of tax evasion in customs authorities in both Kenya and Tanzania by calculating … measurement error is correlated with the tax rates in both Kenya and Tanzania. According to the Transparency International … Corruption Perceptions Index, Kenya is more corrupt than Tanzania, but we find that the coefficient on tax is higher in Tanzania …

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Achieving the MDGs in Kenya with some aid and reallocation of public expenditures

Kiringai, Jane; Levin, Jörgen - 2008

Kenya has ascribed to the Millennium Declaration and is already in the process of mobilising resources and instituting … measures to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). A MDGs status report on Kenya indicates that progress has been made … requirements are not extremely large to reach the MDGs in Kenya. If the resources are effectively used and targeted to MDG sectors …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012654339

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