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Studies have found that politically deprived groups are more likely to rebel. However, does rebellion increase the likelihood of achieving political rights? This article proposes that rebellion helps ethnic groups to overcome deprivation. I illustrate this by using a "typical" case (the Ijaw's...
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Aim/purpose - This paper aims to examine with new empirical evidence the joint relationships between violence, income …, the results confirm a strong positive relationship between violence and income inequality. Conversely, a negative but non …-robust relationship exists between violence and real income per capita. Additionally, the findings show that human capital based on years …
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Decisions to divorce could be affected by a number of characteristics of the local community. Community characteristics may be barriers to divorce (e.g. strong social control) or increase the attractiveness of divorcing (e.g. through access to a good remarriage market), but our knowledge of such...
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conflict-affected countries. This module will enable researchers to address specific violence-related issues comparatively … survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special … in order to deepen the understanding of the nature of violent conflict and the channels whereby conflict and violence …
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Violence at schools is a well-known problem in many societies. This paper assesses the degree of school violence in 11 … the international TIMSS 2003 and the British longitudinal NCDS data. The level of school violence is high in most …
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