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of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human … capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates …
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No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This paper attempts to fill that void by building on a newly constructed dataset (Binningsbo, Elster, and Gates 2005), which reports the presence of various forms of post-conflict...
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This paper derives the skill content of 30 countries, ranging from low-income to high-income ones, from the occupational structure of their economies. Five different skills are defined.. Cross-country measures of skill content show that the intensity of national production of manual skills...
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economic policy in the aftermath of civil war. A sample of conclusions follows. Civil wars differ from international wars. They … the high degree of polarization typical in countries engaged in civil war. And speedy reform, far from increasing … uncertainty, is likely to reduce it. After a civil war, private agents are fearful both of each other and of the government. This …
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The author provides empirical evidence on the effects of inflation on post-war capital flight flows. He tests the … hypothesis that inflation has a positive additional impact on capital flight flows after war. He uses a new panel dataset of 77 … developing countries, of which 35 experienced at least one episode of war between 1971 and 2000. The author uses a range of …
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Using an quot;event-studyquot; methodology, this paper analyzes the aftermath of civil war in a cross-section of … evaluation of the aftermath of war, the paper considers a host of social areas represented by basic indicators of economic … indicators, the paper first compares the post- and pre-war situations and then examines their dynamic trends during the post …
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effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the Islamic State on the Levant. Syria and Iraq bear the brunt of the direct …
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the impact of war on women's employment decisions. The results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency …, women's employment probabilities were substantially higher in 2001 and 2006 relative to the outbreak of war in 1996. These …
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adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction in the United States during the Vietnam War. The paper … associations exist only for men who did not serve in the war, and are not present for women or men who did serve. These findings … add to the evidence on the lasting consequences of stress, and indicate that induction risk during the Vietnam War may, in …
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the occupied areas during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school …
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