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This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know whether we can fully neglect altruistic considerations to explain the development or sustainability...
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We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....
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Conflict can cause negative externalities to arise, and this can result in economic loss. Such externalities are also … this hypothesis, the present paper explores how the degree of conflict between rich and poor people is associated with … where people perceive conflict between rich and poor to be high; (2) an individual is more likely to consider the income …
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contributed significantly to the frequency, incidence, and onset of both overall and ethnic civil conflict over the last half …-century, accounting for a large set of geographical and institutional correlates of conflict, as well as measures of economic development … the incidence of intragroup factional conflict. These findings arguably reflect the contribution of genetic diversity to …
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Does higher resource inequality between ethnic groups lead to ethnic conflict? In this paper, we empirically … increases the risk of ethnic conflict by 16 percentage points (or 0.43 standard deviations). This relationship depends on the …
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spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
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three rounds of household survey data for Sierra Leone in an attempt to estimate the impact of the conflict on the … experienced a sharp reduction in household expenditure inequality in the immediate aftermath of the conflict with most of the …
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We investigate the long-term relationship between conflict-related migration and individual socioeconomic inequality …. Looking at the post-conflict environment of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), a former Yugoslav state most heavily impacted by the … histories. We find that individuals with greater exposure to conflict had systematically worse educational performance and lower …
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We analyzed the effect of Structural Adjustment Program (SAP) on macroeconomic variables of Pakistan using annual time series data for the years 1981-2001. The impact of four policy instruments of SAP, i.e. reduction in budget deficit, increase in indirect taxes,adjusting the exchange rate and...
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Political polarization, the ideological distance between the left and the right, is a defining feature of American politics. We study the link between rising polarization and firm investment. One standard deviation increase in roll-call-based state-level political polarization results in a...
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