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How do Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions affect crime? : evidence from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bullock, Jessie; Pellegrino, Ana Paula - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 22 (2021) 3, pp. 147-163
state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we estimate that extortion, theft, and robberies decrease by at least 41.6% following COVID … decrease in extortion regardless of a precinct's previous activity level, but find that the decrease in theft and robberies is … strongly affected extortion and property crimes while not interfering with the dynamics of violent crime. These findings …
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Engineering Informal Institutions : Long Run Impacts of Alternative Dispute Resolution on Violence and Property Rights in Liberia
Hartman, Alexandra - 2018
Informal institutions govern property rights and disputes when formal systems are weak. Well-functioning institutions should help people reach and maintain bargains, minimizing violence. Can outside organizations engineer improvements and reduce violent conflicts? Will this improve property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012921978
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Engineering Informal Institutions : Long-Run Impacts of Alternative Dispute Resolution on Violence and Property Rights in Liberia
Hartman, Alexandra - 2018
Informal institutions govern property rights and disputes when formal systems are weak. Well-functioning institutions should help people reach and maintain bargains, minimizing violence. Can outside organizations engineer improvements and reduce violent conflicts? Will this improve property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922221
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Engineering informal institutions : long-run impacts of alternative dispute resolution on violence and property rights in Liberia
Hartman, Alexandra; Blair, Robert A.; Blattman, Christopher - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845714
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Differences in national identity, violence and conflict in international sport tournaments : Hic Sunt Leones!
Caruso, Raul; Di Domizio, Marco; Savage, David - In: Kyklos : international review for social sciences 70 (2017) 4, pp. 511-545
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787968
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Going postal : state capacity and violent dispute resolution
Jensen, Jeffrey; Ramey, Adam J. - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 48 (2020) 4, pp. 779-796
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431625
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Engineering Informal Institutions : Long-run Impacts of Alternative Dispute Resolution on Violence and Property Rights in Liberia
Hartman, Alexandra C. - 2018
Informal institutions govern property rights and disputes when formal systems are weak. Well-functioning institutions should help people reach and maintain bargains, minimizing violence. Can outside organizations engineer improvements and reduce violent conflicts? Will this improve property...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453233
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The Illusion of Transformative Conflict Resolution : Mediating Domestic Violence in Nicaragua
Aldana, Raquel E.; Saucedo, Leticia M. - 2010
In this article, we examine the implementation of mediation in domestic violence cases in Nicaragua as a case study of the transnational movement of alternative conflict resolution within rule of law reforms across the world. Unlike scholarship about mediation in the United States, the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224308
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Differences in National Identity, Violence and Conflict in International Sport Tournaments : Hic Sunt Leones!
Caruso, Raul; Di Domizio, Marco; Savage, David A. - 2017
This work examines the relationship between national identity and conflict during international sporting tournaments and the impact of referees as an institutional countermeasure. The empirical analysis covers the FIFA World, Confederations and Under 20's World Cups and Olympic tournaments from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119097
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Civilian Conflict Management : The Role of Scenario Building in the Structural Prevention of Electoral Violence
Kacsó, Zsuzsanna - 2014 - 1st ed.
Contributing to the general pursuit of constructive and sustainable conflict solutions, and the achievement of both negative and positive peace, this book highlights the valuable role of scenario building processes in formulating viable strategies for electoral violence prevention, through...
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