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Intra-household efficiency: An experimental study from Ethiopia
Kebede, Bereket; Tarazona, Marcela; Munro, Alistair; … - 2013
An experimental design using treatments of a voluntary contribution mechanism is used to test household efficiency …. Efficiency is decisively rejected in all treatments contrary to the assumption of most household models. Information on initial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319842
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Civil wars beyond their borders: the human capital and health consequences of hosting refugees
Baez, Javier E. - 2008
local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268705
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Does the stork deliver happiness? Parenthood and life satisfaction
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Studer, Raphael - 2012
This paper examines the relationship between parenthood and life satisfaction using longitudinal data on women from the German Socio-Economic Panel. Previous studies have focused on satisfaction differences between parents and comparable childless adults, mostly finding small and often negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316940
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The long-run labor-market consequences of civil war: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
Galdo, Jose - 2010
This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269927
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Oil and the Eruption of the Algerian Civil War: A Context-sensitive Analysis of the Ambivalent Impact of Resource Abundance
Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010
Algeria's intrastate war in the 1990s, during which militant Islamists and the state fought fiercely against each other, still raises questions concerning the decisive factors leading to its onset and escalation. This paper uses the resource curse approach and the rentier state theory to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275960
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India and the Civil War in Sri Lanka: On the Failures of Regional Conflict Management in South Asia
Destradi, Sandra - 2010
The paper provides an assessment of India's role in the final years of the civil war in Sri Lanka (2003-2009). In particular, it looks for explanations for India's inability to act as a conflict manager in its own region, which is in contrast to predominant assumptions about the role of powerful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275966
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Civil war, climate change and development: A scenario study for Sub-Saharan Africa
Devitt, Conor; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2010
We construct a model of development, civil war, and climate change. There are multiple interactions. Economic growth reduces the probability of civil war and the vulnerability to climate change. Climate change increases the probability of civil war. The impacts of climate change, civil war, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277588
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Disease environment and civil conflicts
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe; Valmori, Simona - 2011
This paper tests the hypothesis that a high and persistent exposure to infectious diseases increases the likelihood of civil conflicts. Diseases that are difficult to prevent and treat may reduce the opportunity costs of violent activities, both directly and indirectly. The analysis exploits new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278648
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Democratization, violent social conflicts, and growth
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2011
This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the Third Wave, we find evidence that the effect of democratization is weaker than reported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278790
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Economic agendas in civil wars: what we know, what we need to know
Malone, David M.; Nitzschke, Heiko - 2005
The political economy of civil wars has acquired unprecedented scholarly and policy attention. Among others, the International Peace Academy’s programme on Economic Agendas in Civil Wars (EACW) has aimed to contribute to a better understanding of the complex dynamics of civil war economies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279203