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Bauer, Michal; Blattman, Christopher J.; Chytilová, Julie - 2016

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...

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Can War Foster Cooperation?

Bauer, Michal - 2016

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Beyond Greed and Grievance : Feasibility and Civil War

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke; Rohner, Dominic - 2010

Civil war is the most prevalent form of large-scale violence and is massively destructive to life, society, and the economy. The prevention of civil war is therefore a key priority for international attention. We present an empirical analysis of what makes countries prone to civil war. Using a...

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Chapter 23 Civil War

Collier, Paul; Hoeffler, Anke - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 711-739). 2007

Civil wars are intricate social, political and psychological phenomena. However, economics can offer analytical insights which are useful alongside the more conventional approach of case-studies. Indeed, the policy conclusions drawn from economic analysis sometimes cast doubt on conventional...

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Institutions and Development : The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of resource- or land-abundant regions like South America and the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. We develop a...

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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2004

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Magna Carta

Desierto, Desiree; Hall, Jacob; Koyama, Mark - 2023

Magna Carta, a pivotal moment in the emergence of constitutional government, institutionalised constraints on royal power. We depict it as an optimal agreement between two coalitions capable of violence: the king's loyal coalition of barons and the rebel barons. This type of agreement is more...

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The legacies of armed conflict : insights from stayees and returning forced migrants

Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2022

How does conflict, displacement, and return shape trust, reconciliation, and community engagement? And what is the … legacies of armed conflict and the differences between those who stayed in their communities of origin during the conflict …

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Kolo, Philipp - 2016 - Draft version from December 2015

religion between groups. The resulting distance-adjusted ethno-linguistic fractionalization index (DELF) is based on highly …

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Institutions, Wages and Inequality : The Case of Europe and its Periphery (1500-1899)

Chor, Davin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005

This paper explores the long-run relationship between institutions and wage outcomes in Europe and its periphery. I … ratio. While the first result corroborates existing work on the positive growth effects of better institutions, the second … finding is more novel to the literature. Some explanations are proposed for how stronger institutions can cause an increase in …

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