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Nigeria using the three waves of the Nigerian General Household Survey (GHS) panel combined with The Armed Conflict Location …Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and … socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within …
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various dimensions embracing world wars, regional conflicts, terrorism and the role of peacekeeping in conflict prevention …The Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can contribute to the understanding of conflict in its …. The economics of conflict is a relatively new branch of the discipline of economics. Conflict provides opportunities for …
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-peaceful world. But how much would individual be willing to pay to avoid just the economic costs of conflict? Remarkably, even these …War, whether external or internal, large or small, is a costly endeavor. Loss of life, loss of close friends or family …, and the destruction of material possessions all play a part in the costs of war. The purpose of this paper is to capture …
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on conflict and violence by concluding that violence in non-war zones has important implications for labor market …This paper analyzes a context where sustained violence happens in non-war zones. Specifically, this paper considers … terrorist attacks in Pakistan and focuses on districts which were never an active war zone, but still suffered from intermittent …
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microfinance institutes, and informal channels-on household welfare indicators. We find that the long-term impact of access to …
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We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent … experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying intensity. We exploit that villages affected by the conflict had the same … trend in fertility as non-affected villages prior to the onset of conflict and employ a difference-in-differences estimator …
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We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent …, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying intensity. Our difference-in-differences analysis shows that … women in villages affected by civil conflict increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent …
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of international trafficking. We conduct a direct estimation, which highlights the ultimate impact of ethnic … fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. -- ethnic fragmentation … ; conflict ; displaced persons ; human trafficking …
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