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Re-evaluating the economic costs of conflicts

Fonseca, Mariana Lopes da; Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2015

This paper studies the economic costs of conflicts at the country and ethnic group settlement level with light output data as measured by orbital satellites and conflict data spatially mapped to latitude and longitude coordinates. Using a worldwide dataset of 7,704 individual ethnic group...

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Wages, Human Capital, and Structural Transformation

Herrendorf, Berthold - 2017

Average wages are considerably lower in agriculture than in the other sectors. We document this fact for thirteen countries ranging from rich (Canada, U.S.) to poor (India, Indonesia). We develop a measure of human capital that accounts for the selection of workers with different unobserved...

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Workers, Warriors and Criminals : Social Conflict in General Equilibrium

Dal Bo, Ernesto; Dal Bo, Pedro - 2004

We analyze how economy-wide forces (i.e. shocks to terms of trade, technology and endowments) affect the intensity of social conflict. We see conflict phenomena such as crime and civil war as involving resource appropriation activities. We show that not all shocks that could make society richer...

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Globalization and Domestic Conflict

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2021

We examine how globalization affects trade patterns and welfare when conflict prevails domestically. We do so in a simple model of trade, in which a natural resource like oil is contested by competing groups using real resources ("guns"). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from...

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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War

Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo - 2017

This paper suggests that societies exhibiting a large degree of educational polarization among its populace are systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly educated citizens are likely to differ fundamentally from...

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Beyond Greed and Grievance : Feasibility and Civil War

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke; Rohner, Dominic - 2010

Civil war is the most prevalent form of large-scale violence and is massively destructive to life, society, and the …

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Innovation, specialization and growth in a model of structural change

Andergassen, Rainer; Nardini, Franco; Ricottilli, Massimo - 2010

The aim of this paper is to investigate the nexus between demand patterns and innovation as it stems from research efforts and the extent of specialization. In the proposed model an innovation race conducted by entrants investing in research and development against established incumbents raises...

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Policing, Schooling and Human Capital Accumulation

Lopez Cruz, Ivan - 2016

against criminality and violence. On the other hand, recent work has demonstrated that low levels of public safety can have … two public programs. The model analyzes individual decisions to acquire violence related skills ("street capital") at the … comparative disadvantage in exerting violence because their opportunity cost of doing so is higher. The paper finds, therefore …

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Family shocks and academic achievement

Hull, Marie - 2015

Disruptions in family life can take many forms, but all have the potential to impact student learning. With school administrative data matched to birth records, I estimate the effect of unexpected changes in the home environment, or family shocks, on achievement. Identification comes from...

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Lowering barriers to remote education : experimental impacts on parental responses and learning

Beam, Emily A.; Mukherjee, Priya; Navarro-Sola, Laia - 2022

We conduct a randomized controlled trial with households of secondary school students in Bangladesh to investigate how parents adjust their investments in response to three educational interventions: an informational campaign about an educational phone application, an internet data subsidy, and...

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