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What factors caused the persecution of minorities in medieval and early modern Europe? We build a model that predicts that minority communities were more likely to be expropriated in the wake of negative income shocks. Using panel data consisting of 1,366 city-level persecutions of Jews from 936...
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ultimate determinants of conflict. However, fractionalization in all its demographic forms is endogenous in the long run. In … the relationship between fractionalization and the propensity of internal conflict statistically insignificant. Finally … ecclesiastical conflicts shows that religous fractionalization likely has negative effects on economic growth. -- Conflict ; religion …
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The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
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fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. -- ethnic fragmentation … ; conflict ; displaced persons ; human trafficking …
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fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements …
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How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (firsthand) experience with conflict induces … improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through third-party accounts, on the other hand, reduces trust toward everyone. We find …-Muslim conflict during 1999-2002, as well as in three cross-country datasets exploiting temporal and spatial variation in exposure to …
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nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …
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spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …
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dynamics and for internal conflict than is commonly acknowledged in both empirical and theoretical research. …
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commitment of donors must not be in doubt. For these conditions to be in place, conflict resolution must be in donors' interests …
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