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Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …

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Who Does What in a Household after Genocide?: Evidence from Rwanda

Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two...

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Political Violence, Drought and Child Malnutrition: Empirical Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Tranchant, Jean-Pierre; Justino, Patricia; Müller, … - Households in Conflict Network - 2014

period reversed the adverse effects of drought in communities previously affected by the conflict. Potential mechanisms … explaining the strong joint welfare effect of conflict and drought are the failure of economic coping strategies in areas of …

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The Impact of Conflict on Education Attainment and Enrollment in Colombia: lessons from recent IDPs

Oyelere, Ruth Uwaifo; Wharton, Kate - Households in Conflict Network - 2013

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict have made Colombia home to over 3 million Internally Displaced … accumulation and enrollment gaps created by being directly affected by conflict. We proxy for this direct impact by focusing on … IDPs. First, we show that measuring the impact of conflict on children using levels of conflict at the municipal level …

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Egalitarian norms, economic development, and ethnic polarization

Haagsma, Rein; Mouche, Pierre v. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 3, pp. 719-744

accompanied by polarization and violent conflict. We illustrate this point by describing the processes of land privatization in …

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Rationality as a barrier to peace: micro-evidence from Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2007

Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the available micro-level information about the people who are involved in these conflicts. We address...

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Who does what in a household after genocide? Evidence from Rwanda

Schindler, Kati - 2010

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Violence and migration: Evidence from Mexico's drug war

Basu, Sukanya; Pearlman, Sarah - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 18, pp. 1-29

The effect of violence on people's residential choice remains a debated topic in the literature on crime and conflict …

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Seeds of distrust: Conflict in Uganda

Rohner, Dominic; Thoenig, Mathias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2011

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316943

Effect of forced displacement on health

Zilic, Ivan - 2015

This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the War in Croatia 1991-1995 which accompanied the demise of Yugoslavia. Using the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003 we test whether displacement is relevant in explaining various dimensions of measured...

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