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Grievance and reduced opportunity costs are two popular ideas within the civil war literature to explain participation in violent rebellion. We test both hypotheses at the village-level using data on recruitment activities during the civil war in Burundi. We use historical data on violent...
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tests with different specifications and with year-province rainfall shocks affecting overall agricultural income, not just …
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consumption growth by 13%. We also find that violence afflicted on household members decreases growth whereas membership of rebel … temporarily famine-induced migration and illness decrease growth while good harvests, more split-offs and higher initial levels of … education increase it. Good harvests are found to have persistent positive effects on growth. Our results are robust for …
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wounded reduces consumption growth by 9% for every 25 casualties. Joining an armed rebel group was a lucrative livelihood … strategy: households of which at least one member joined an armed group experienced 41% higher growth in welfare over the study …
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consumption growth by 13%. We also find that violence afflicted on household members decreases growth whereas membership of rebel … temporarily famine-induced migration and illness decrease growth while good harvests, more split-offs and higher initial levels of … education increase it. Good harvests are found to have persistent positive effects on growth. Our results are robust for …
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consumption growth by 13%. We also find that violence afflicted on household members decreases growth whereas membership of rebel … temporarily famine-induced migration and illness decrease growth while good harvests, more split-offs and higher initial levels of … education increase it. Good harvests are found to have persistent positive effects on growth. Our results are robust for …
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This paper studies the strategic behavior of four parties in the crucial years preceding the Rwandan genocide, namely 1990-1994. For that purpose a nested game is developed in which the autocratic regime plays a transition game with the domestic opposition in the principal arena and at the same...
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