Showing 1 - 10 of 89
We investigate the impact of childhood exposure to organized criminal violence on sociopolitical attitudes in Mexico … institutions, interpersonal trust, and vote choice. To assess the impact of violence exposure on these attitudes, we construct … confrontations from the municipality where they grew up. Our findings indicate that exposure to both types of violence during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314164
that young men and women may be able to play in preventing conflicts and sustaining peace in their communities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336332
We analyse the effect of parental risk preferences and a novel measure of maternal bargaining power over educational expenses-elicited via lab-in-the-field experiments in rural Côte d'Ivoire-on the educational progression of boys and girls. Data from 135 couples and their children show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013441652
This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and strengthened educational curriculum of 2010 provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336373
The COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development. These are that (1) in a global crisis, the shifting value of data creates policy pitfalls; (2) predictions of crises and how they play...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268212
that the same logic does not apply to lower-scale group violence such as riots, which differ in such a way that … argument by analysing Muslim-Christian violence in the post-Suharto era, combining a new subnational data set of ethno …-income and ethnogeographic crosscuttingness with a new and comprehensive subnational data set of violence in Indonesia. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568115
analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777138
experienced cycles of violence between the 1960s and 1980s. Can such violence be explained by legacies of mobilization during … fascism? We study whether and how the Italian fascist experience of the 1920s affected political violence during the 1970s and … regime-predicts neofascist political violence at the provincial level more than 40 years later. New windows of opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234455
The lack of political representation often lies at the origin of identity-based violence, and, when not resolved, can … re-ignite violence. We study who perceives gains and losses in political representation in Rwanda and Burundi and why. We … both countries, we observe a sharp drop in perceived political representation in the run-up to and during violence, and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461972
India. We code data on Hindu-Muslim violence and Muslim political representation in India and leverage quasi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314747