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Are genetic traits associated with riots? The political legacy of prehistorically determined genetic diversity
Vu, Trung V. - 2021
This paper establishes that the worldwide distribution of political instability has its deep historical roots in genetic diversity, predetermined over the prehistoric course of the exodus of Homo sapiens from East Africa tens of thousands of years ago. It proposes that the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520391
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Fractionalization and the Fight over Natural Resources: Ethnicity, language, religion, and the onset of civil war
Brunnschweiler, Christa N; Bulte, Erwin H - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2009
We use three different measures of fractionalization (with varying potential for members of one fraction to … combination of ethnic fractionalization and resource wealth seems to translate into a greater risk of war, but the same is not … true for linguistic and religious fractionalization. This is consistent with the “greed hypothesis” as a driver of conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008670366
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Inefficient group organization as optimal adaption to dominant environments
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - 2010
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270878
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Inefficient Group Organization as Optimal Adaption to Dominant Environments
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2010
Contests between groups are plagued by intra-group externalities (freeriding). Yet, costless incentive schemes that entirely avoid free-riding within a group might not be desirable, neither individually nor socially. In contests among two groups, a relatively weak (i.e., small or unproductive)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498991
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Envy in the process of development: Implications for Social Relations and Conflict.
Gershman, Boris - In: Economics of Peace and Security Journal 8 (2013) 2, pp. 13-19
This article examines envy as an important cultural link between inequality, institutions, development, and conflict. It argues that envy can be either a source of strife and stagnation or an engine for peaceful competition and growth. The fundamental conditions that activate the constructive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011010566
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Ethnic Diversity and Local Conflicts
Bleaney, Michael; Dimico, Arcangelo - School of Economics, University of Nottingham
to greater local polarization and more frequent, but smaller, conflicts that involve only some ethnic groups. These … explains the apparent lack of correlation between ethnic fractionalization and the incidence of conflict found in previous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964244
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Ethnic and Religious Polarization and Social Conflict
Esteban, Joan; Mayoral, Laura - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 2011
fractionalization index. We also obtain that both ethnic and religious polarization are significant in explaining conflict. The results … quality of the fit. Our measure of polarization outperforms the measure used by Montalvo and Reynal-Querol (2005) and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788733
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480489
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476047
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The Severity of the Colombian Conflict: Cross-Country Datasets versus New Micro Data
Restrepo, Jorge; Spagat, Michael; Vargas, Juan F. - Department of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London - 2004
We compare the treatment of Colombia in large cross-country conflict datasets with the information of the detailed micro dataset of Restrepo, Spagat and Vargas (2003). We find a general tendency of the big datasets to underestimate the magnitude of the Colombian conflict and to mischaracterize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784829