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In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côte d’Ivoire. To identify the … true impact of conflict, we use (1) pre-war and post-war household data, (2) the specific counts of conflict events across … the worst-hit conflict areas and individuals who are the direct victims of the conflict having lower dietary energy supply …
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linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …
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In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary diversity in Côte d’Ivoire. To identify the true … impact of conflict, we use (1) pre-war and post-war household data, (2) the specific counts of conflict events across … in the worst-hit conflict areas and individuals who are the direct victims of the conflict having lower dietary diversity …
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In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côte d’Ivoire. To identify the … true impact of conflict, we use prewar and post-war household data bracketing the conflict period and the spatial variation … in the prevalence of conflict between the North and South regions. Our second identification strategy uses the specific …
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and programs in conflict-prone countries, and offers insights for policymakers regarding how to do so. To understand the … relationship between conflict and food security, this report builds a new conceptual framework of food security and applies it to … resilience to conflict insofar as they are expected not only to help countries and people cope with and recover from conflict but …
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We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally-representative data collected in Afghanistan from 2007 to 2008. We use a new estimator, the Unconditional Quantile Regression (UQR) estimator, based on influence functions to examine...
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to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …
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This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively small datasets and focussed on East Germany, this is the first study which allows to draw policy-relevant...
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In dieser Studie werden die Wirkungen von Arbeitsbeschaffungsmaßnahmen (ABM) in Deutschland auf die individuellen Eingliederungswahrscheinlichkeiten der Teilnehmer in reguläre Beschäftigung evaluiert. Für die Untersuchung wird ein umfangreicher und informativer Datensatz aus den Datenquellen...
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