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We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … results in a large and significant decline in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The average result is driven by richer states and those … curbing civil conflict. …
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We analyse rural household livelihood and children’s school enrolment decisions in a post-conflict setting in the … show that heightened subjective perceptions of future violence and past actual experiences of conflict influences current … theories of risk. Furthermore, a post-conflict household-level Phoenix or economic revival factor may be in operation, based in …
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polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less understood. We argue that …
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How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … legacies of armed conflict and the differences between those who stayed in their communities of origin during the conflict …
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We examine whether frontier rule, which disallows frontier residents from a recourse to formal institutions of conflict …km-by10km grid cell-level data on conflict in a spatial regression discontinuity design framework, we show that areas … conflict management, led to a sharp surge in attacks against state targets in frontier areas. We show that the surge in …
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This paper identifies eight political economy factors that influenced governments' policy choices during the most recent global food price crisis. To explain the variety of responses and the policy failures, a framework is proposed that locates policies along the twin dimensions of unitary vs....
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Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government’s taxation levels. We examine the political economy of decentralized revenue-raising authority in light of social...
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We evaluate the effectiveness of a post-conflict development programme on maternal health-care utilization in the … post-conflict psychosocial risks: the household's actual experience of violence, and subjective perceptions about violence …. Despite this, forced settlement by outsiders, household experiences of conflict, and perceptions of insecurity lower maternal …
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(IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects. I show that civil war leads to affected … economic geography model. The model sheds light on different mechanisms through which conflict affects aggregate income …
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In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper … civil wars and exposes challenges and opportunities for bottom-up approaches to post-conflict state-building and local …
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