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The negative long-term effects of World War II on those directly exposed to it are well documented, but there is no … intergenerational effects of World War II in terms of educational attainments. We focus on parent-children dyads in which parents were … born between 1926 and 1949, and show two things. First, parents who suffered the war, that is, were exposed to major war …
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affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. -- conflict ; violence ; war …, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual …
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This paper analyzes health consequences of forced civilian displacement that occurred during the war in Croatia 1991 …
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This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the socio-economic consequences of conflict involvement. The first … essay studies the effect of the Operation Iraqi Freedom and the following civil war on schooling outcomes of Iraqi children … in mandatory schooling age. Several conflict measures which vary over geographic regions are proposed to capture …
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War, whether external or internal, large or small, is a costly endeavor. Loss of life, loss of close friends or family …, and the destruction of material possessions all play a part in the costs of war. The purpose of this paper is to capture … only the material, economic welfare costs of conflict stemming from the altered path of consumption resulting from conflict …
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geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when …
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We demonstrate that civil conflict erodes self-identification with a nation-state even among non-rebellious ethnic … groups in non-conflict areas. We perform a difference-in-difference estimation using Afrobarometer data. Using the onset of … capacity, we find that residents living closer to the border with the conflict zone experienced a larger decrease in national …
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