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Terrorism Financing, Recruitment and Attacks: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Limodio, Nicola - 2019

I present empirical evidence showing that terrorism financing and recruitment pro- mote terrorist attacks. Pakistan … offers an ideal setting for this research due to a natural experiment inducing exogenous variation in terrorism financing. In …, measured by combining dark web data and machine learning. These results suggest that financial counter-terrorism lowers attacks …

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Die Zahlungsströme der transnationalen organisierten Kriminalität (TOK) und Steuerbetrug in OECD-Ländern: Einige empirische Ergebnisse

Schneider, Friedrich - 2013

Dieser Beitrag hat zwei Ziele: Erstens werden die empirischen Ergebnisse über die Erlöse (Geldwäsche-Ströme) der transnationalen organisierten Kriminalität (TOK) weltweit sowie für einige OECD-Länder dargestellt sowie deren Größenordnung nach verschiedenen Verbrechensarten. Weiters...

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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff

Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohorts. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying...

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Collateral damage: trade disruption and the economic impact of war

Taylor, Alan M.; Glick, Reuven - 2005

Conventional wisdom in economic history suggests that conflict between countries can be enormously disruptive of economic activity, especially international trade. Yet nothing is known empirically about these effects in large samples. We study the effects of war on bilateral trade for almost all...

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No evidence that siblings' gender affects personality across nine countries

Dudek, Thomas; Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Feld, Jan; Rohrer, … - 2022

Does growing up with a sister rather than a brother affect personality? In this paper, we provide a comprehensive analysis of the effects of siblings' gender on adults' personality, using data from 85,887 people from 12 large representative surveys covering 9 countries (the United States, the...

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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...

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Seeking No War, Achieving No Peace: The Conflict over the Siachen Glacier

Andersson, Tommy; Mukherjee, Conan - 2018

This paper models "no war, no peace" situations in a game theoretical framework where two countries are engaged in a standoff over a military sector. The first main objective is to identify rational grounds for such situations and, more precisely, explicit equilibria that leads to such...

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Dancing with the populist: New parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections

Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020

This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...

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The political effects of threats to the nation: Evidence from the Cuban Missile Crisis

Colussi, Tommaso - 2021

This paper investigates how voters respond to threats to the nation by estimating the political effects of the Cuban Missile Crisis. To establish causality, I exploit the geographical variation induced by the range of the missiles: only U.S. localities within 1,000 nautical miles from Cuba could...

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Who recovers from a job loss? The importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Dahlberg, Matz; Martén, Linna; Öckert, Björn - 2021

A well-functioning labor market is characterized by job reallocations, but the individual costs can be vast. We examine if individual's ability to cope with such adjustments depends on their cognitive and non-cognitive skills (measured by population-wide enlistment tests). Since selection into...

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