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This paper analyzes the determinants of households' decisions to purchase micro life insurance, the most common but least investigated type of microinsurance. It uses household survey data collected in southern Ghana in 2009. Insurance participation and extent of coverage are examined against a...
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We employ a two-tier spatiotemporal analysis to investigate whether uranium operations cause armed conflict in Africa. The macrolevel analysis suggests that - compared to the baseline conflict risk - uranium ventures increase the risk of intrastate conflict by 10 percent. However, we find ethnic...
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How do judgment devices influence price formation? We investigate this question through a study of the German wine market. The German wine market is characterized by the simultaneous existence of two classification systems: the official classification system referring to the "quality in the...
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Political economy and economic sociology have developed in relative isolation from each other. While political economy … focuses largely on macrophenomena, economic sociology focuses on the level of social interaction in the economy. The paper … argues that economic sociology can provide a microfoundation of political economy beyond rational actor theory and behavioral …
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