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Water Law in the United States and Brazil - Climate Change & Two Approaches to Emerging Water Poverty

Cassuto, David N.; Sampaio, Romulo S. R. - 2015

This article examines two of the major water legal regimes in the Americas - that of Brazil and the United States. Both countries have extensive wet and dry regions and both hydro-regimes face a significant threat from global warming. Brazil, for instance, is home to between eight and fifteen...

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Turning points during the US Civil War : views from the Grayback market

Weidenmier, Marc D. - 2000

This paper introduces a new high frequency time series of Confederate money prices taken from the newspapers of Richmond and leading cities in the Eastern Confederacy. The new Grayback series is tested for "turning points". The empirical analysis suggests that "turning points" in the Confederate...

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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books

Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2016

We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora from millions of digitized books for the USA, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. While existing measures go back at most to the 1970s, our measure goes back at least 200...

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Diasporas and conflict

Mariani, Fabio; Mercier, Marion; Verdier, Thierry - 2016

We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor … involved in the conflict by transferring financial resources to its origin country. We find that the diaspora influences the … conflict equilibrium, the two groups of residents prefer to negotiate a peaceful settlement if there exists a sharing rule that …

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Out of the ashes, into the fire : the consequences of U.S. weapons sales for political violence

Magesan, Arvind; Swee, Eik Leong - In: European economic review : EER 107 (2018), pp. 133-156

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Fractionalization and the size of government

Lind, Jo Thori - 2003

fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for …

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Fractionalization and the Size of Government

Lind, Jo Thori - 2003

This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … fractionalization and group antagonism reduce the support for redistribution. Whereas within group inequality increases support for …

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