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Task Force: Chinas Rolle in den internationalen Beziehungen; globale Herausforderungen und die chinesische Außenpolitik
Heberer, Thomas; Senz, Anja-Désirée - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Universität … - 2010
Chinas Außenpolitik und internationale Beziehungen haben sich seit den 1980er Jahren stark verändert. Eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Akteure nimmt inzwischen Einfluss auf die Gestaltung der chinesischen Außenbeziehungen. Außerdem ist parallel zur erfolgreichen ökonomischen Entwicklung auch...
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Screening for Honesty
Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We report the results of a field experiment on honesty conducted on 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884262
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Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the Temporal Distance between Decisions and Payoffs
Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the … from the army base on Thursday afternoon. Soldiers who participated on Sunday (the first work day of the week) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960103
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Technology and the Era of the Mass Army
Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano; Scheve, Kenneth; … - Economics, Markets, Institutions, IMT Lucca Institute … - 2012
We investigate how technology has influenced the size of armies. During the nineteenth century the development of the railroad made it possible to field and support mass armies, significantly increasing the observed size of military forces. During the late twentieth century further advances in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010925515
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“Poor South Africa! Will no nice English people ever come out here?”—The South African Constabulary of the Second South African War
Fourie, Johan; Grundlingh, Albert; Mariotti, Martine - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2015
Using newly digitized and transcribed attestation records, we provide a detailed description of the composition of the South African Constabulary, a volunteer force of mostly English recruits during and after the Second South African War. These records contain personal particulars, such as age,...
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HONEST ON MONDAYS: HONESTY AND THE TEMPORAL DISTANCE BETWEEN DECISIONS AND PAYOFFS
Ruffle, Bradley J.; Tobol, Yossef - Economics Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev - 2013
427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the … from the army base on Thursday afternoon. Soldiers who participated on Sunday (the first work day of the week) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272247
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Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War
Bauer, Michal; Fiala, Nathan; Levely, Ian - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2014
The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We use an … experimental approach to study reintegration in Northern Uganda and examine behavior of former soldiers together with the behavior … a large fraction of young people in the area. The effect is strongest among former soldiers who were abducted during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842895
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Honest on Mondays: Honesty and the temporal separation between decisions and payoffs
Ruffle, Bradley J.; Tobol, Yossef - In: European Economic Review 65 (2014) C, pp. 126-135
427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the … from the army base on Thursday afternoon. Soldiers who participated on Sunday (the first work day of the week) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729787
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Trusting Former Rebels: An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War
Bauer, Michal; Fiala, Nathan; Levely, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine … social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands … of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of interlocked experiments to study behavior of ex-soldiers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010761632
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Burma: Member States of the UN must Intervene: ACHR Weely Review
ACHR, Asian Centre for Human Rights - eSocialSciences - 2007
Reports have been pouring in that the Burmese soldiers today used baton and tear gas against the Buddhist monks and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528124