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Garfinkel, Michelle R. - 2006

In this paper, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced, represents a significant departure from the traditional paradigm of...

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When Syria Was in Egypt’s Land Egyptians Cooperate With Syrians, but Less With Each Other

Hassan, Mazen - 2019

With the number of Syrians who have fled their country since 2011 exceeding 5 million, and no end in sight of the Syrian civil war, there is little expectation that Syrians currently residing outside of Syria are likely to go back soon. The question of their integration into their respective...

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Risk-Taking, Trust, and Traumatization Among Syrian Refugees in Jordan – A Lab-in-The-Field Experiment

El-Bialy, Nora - 2017

and Jordanians. More specifically, we report results regarding risk preferences, trust, and altruism. It turns out that …

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Borderline Disorder : (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Depetris-Chauvín, Emilio - 2020

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...

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Fíjate bien dónde pisas. Efectos del Desminado Humanitario en Colombia : ¿menos coca y más desarrollo? (The Fault is Mine Effects of Humanitarian Demining in Colombia: Less Coca an...

Castiblanco, Diana - 2020

Spanish Abstract: En Colombia las minas han sido usadas por los grupos armados ilegales para proteger los cultivos de coca y controlar el territorio. Nuestro trabajo es el primero en explorar los efectos del Desminado Humanitario sobre los cultivos de coca en Colombia. A través de un modelo de...

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Inter-Ethnic Fertility Spillovers and the Role of Forward-Looking Behavior : Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia

Beam, Emily - 2016

Demographic pressures can create competition for limited private and public resources and exacerbate pre-existing inter-ethnic tensions. At the same time, inter-ethnic competition may influence individual fertility decisions. Using the variation in birth rates in Malaysia induced by the Chinese...

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Terrorism Risk and Democratic Preferences in Pakistan

Rehman, Faiz Ur - 2015

Beyond direct damages, terrorism creates fear and insecurity, potentially reducing support for democratic institutions … threatens not only individuals, but also democratic institutions …

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State History and Contemporary Conflict : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2015

to document a robust negative statistical relationship between local long-run exposure to state institutions and … within-country long history of statehood is linked to people's positive attitudes toward local state institutions and …

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Endogenous Property Rights, Conflict Intensity and Inequality in Asymmetric Rent-Seeking Contest

Yarkin, Alexander - 2014

redistribute wealth or to expand the ruling class in order to improve institutions and limit rent-seeking incentives …

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Can War Foster Institutional Change?

O'Reilly, Colin - 2018

Exposure to violent conflict increases prosocial behavior, which is a form of social capital or informal institutions …. This article studies whether these changes to informal institutions map into change to formal institutions, and if this … mapping is characterized by substitutability or complementarity between institutions. To test this hypothesis, we use the …

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