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countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the casual impact of conflict in Nigeria on welfare related outcomes. The 2009 … in the North Eastern and Central parts of Nigeria. However, bouts of violent conflict has existed in different … communities across Nigeria since independence. We estimate the general effect of conflict exposure on welfare, across Nigeria …
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Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions over the last few decades leading to significant … supply of agricultural households. Using a nationally representative panel dataset for Nigeria in combination with armed …
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This paper empirically investigates the effects of Anti-Open Grazing Laws (AOGLs) on herder-farmer conflicts in Nigeria … disaggregated microdata to analyze how AOGLs influence conflict incidence across regions of Nigeria. Our findings indicate limited …) auf Konflikte zwischen Hirten und Landwirten in Nigeria. Die Gesetze wurden als Reaktion auf eskalierende gewaltsame …
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Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions since its independence leading to significant … agriculture. Using a nationally representative panel dataset for Nigeria from 2010-2015, in combination with armed conflict data …
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Although the incidence of conflicts between Fulani nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers in Nigeria have risen … from Kaduna, the state with the third highest incidence of pastoral conflicts in Nigeria, this study fills these gaps. The …Obwohl die Häufigkeit von Konflikten zwischen nomadischen FulaniPastoralisten und sesshaften Bauern in Nigeria in den …
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We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in India. We code data on Hindu-Muslim violence and Muslim political representation in India and leverage quasi-random variation in legislator religion generated by the results of...
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During the past two centuries, western nations have successively extended the voting franchise to citizens of lower income. We explain this process of democratization as a rational way for incumbent elites to wage war effectively on other nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict...
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We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups. The resource is allocated by a composite state institution according to relative ethnic control; hence the ethnic groups contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The...
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Despite informality being the norm in conflict-affected countries, most estimates of the impact of conflict on economic activity rely on formal sector data. Using high-frequency data from Afghanistan, this paper assesses how surges in conflict intensity affect not only the formal sector, but...
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We investigate the implications of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) for interstate confl ict. We set up a two-stage game with three competing importers, where fi rst, two of the countries decide on whether to initiate war against each other, and subsequently, all three countries select their...
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