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Despite the widespread prevalence of violent conflict in most destitute regions of the world, little is known about the … providing an insight into how individuals cope during post-conflict recovery in Northern Uganda. We particularly compare …
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aftermath of violent conflict. Our analysis is based on two sources of information: household survey data collected in northern … Uganda for households that were displaced by the civil conflict, and geo-referenced data on armed conflict events, with which … we construct our developed index of recent conflict exposure. We compare households that moved out of camps with those …
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We study the effect of living in an internally displaced people's (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war … household data with micro-level conflict data to control for endogeneity (selection of households out from camps). We find a … strong effect of camp residence on activity choices. Particularly, individuals in IDP camps are more inclined to cultivate …
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We study the effect of living in an internally displaced people's (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war … household data with micro-level conflict data to control for endogeneity (selection of households out from camps). We find a … strong effect of camp residence on activity choices. Particularly, individuals in IDP camps are more inclined to cultivate …
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We examine the effect of inter-group fiscal competition on within-group violent conflict. Using a triple difference … that higher competition between villages reduces conflict but only up to moderate levels of competition. The conflict …
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This report provides a critical examination of the international literature on the role and impact of labour market information (LMI). The purpose of this exercise is to assess the current state of knowledge on the role and impact of LMI and to identify gaps in our knowledge. The report finds...
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This report provides a critical assessment of recent Canadian efforts to measure and evaluate the impacts of labour market information (LMI). The purpose of this exercise is to provide a summary of the current state of knowledge on the role and impact of LMI in Canada, to assess the contribution...
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of reference-dependent effects of unemployment on mental well-being. We show that the negative effect of unemployment on mental well-being depends on expectations about the future employment status. Several contributions to the literature have shown that...
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