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Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document causal effects on trust and ethnic identity of an exogenous outburst of ethnic conflicts in 2002-04. We exploit two waves of...

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Does revolution change risk attitudes? Evidence from Burkina Faso

Sepahvand, Mohammad H.; Shahbazian, Roujman; Swain, … - 2019

A popular uprising in 2014, led to a revolution overthrowing the sitting president of Burkina Faso. We investigate if individuals' risk attitudes changed due to this revolution. Specifically, we investigate the impact of the revolution on risk attitudes, by gender, age and level of education....

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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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Distributional disputes and civil conflict

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003

Some polities are able to use constitutionally prescribed political processes to settle distributional disputes, whereas in other polities distributional disputes result in civil conflict. Theoretical analysis reveals that the following properties help to make it possible to design a...

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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: • an unfortified border; • a fortified but peaceful border; and...

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Media and social capital

Campante, Filipe R.; Durante, Ruben; Tesei, Andrea - 2021

We survey the empirical literature in economics on the impact of media technologies on social capital. Motivated by a simple model of information and collective action, we cover a range of different outcomes related to social capital, from social and political participation to interpersonal...

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Establishing cooperation between groups: Ingroup versus outgroup punishment

Stoff, Christian - 2006

We analyse interethnic cooperation in an infinitely repeated prisoner's dilemma when members of one group are unable to target punishment towards individual defectors from the other group. We first show that indiscriminate outgroup punishment may sustain cooperation in this setting. Our main...

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... and six hundred thousand men were dead

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2003

The dispute that resulted in the secession of eleven Southern states from the Union and the ensuing Civil War proximately concerned the geographical expansion of slavery, but ultimately bore on the existence of the institution of slavery itself. This paper asks why in 1861 after seventy years of...

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Peace and war in territorial disputes

Grossman, Herschel I. - 2004

Why do sovereign states sometimes fail to settle territorial disputes peacefully? Also, why do even peaceful settlements of territorial disputes rarely call for the resulting border to be unfortified? This paper explores a class of answers to these questions that is based on the following...

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Annexation or conquest? The economics of empire building

Grossman, Herschel I.; Mendoza, Juan - 2002

This paper develops an economic theory of empire building. This theory addresses the choice among three strategies that … Conquest. The theory yields hypotheses that relate the choice among these strategies to such factors as the economic gains from … liquidity constraints on Þnancing imperial armies. This theory also yields hypotheses about the scope of imperial ambitions. The …

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