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Agricultural shocks and riots : a disaggregated analysis
Almer, Christian Alexander; Laurent-Lucchetti, Jérémy; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438184
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Income shocks and social unrest: theory and evidence
Almer, Christian; Laurent-Lucchetti, Jérémy; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Combining theoretical and empirical work, this paper explores the impact of economic shocks on the incidence of social unrest (i.e., mass demonstrations and violent riots) in autocracies. Our theory predicts negative economic shocks to boost unrest since-in bad times-fighting the regime to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360259
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Growth Poles: Agricultural Shocks and Riots: A Disaggregated Analysis
Almer, Christian; Laurent-Lucchetti, Jeremy; Oechslin, … - Institut d'Economie et Econométrie, Université de Genève - 2014
Every year, riots cause a substantial number of fatalities in less-advanced countries. This paper explores the role of agricultural output shocks in explaining riots. Our theory predicts a negative relationship between the level of rioting and the deviation of the actual output from the average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095591
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Wars and child health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict
Akresh, Richard; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Thirumurthy, Harsha - 2011
Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to … exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different children's birth … cohorts to the fighting. The paper uniquely incorporates GPS information on the distance between survey villages and conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278717
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Spurious Regressions and Panel IV Estimation: Revisiting the Causes of Conflict
Christian, Paul; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2022
conflict. We offer diagnostic and corrective recommendations for avoiding the pitfalls arising from time series exhibiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013382692
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The impact of social heterogeneity and commodity price shocks on civil conflicts
Giménez-Gómez, José-Manuel; Zergawu, Yitagesu-Zewdu - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 40 (2018) 5, pp. 959-997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053546
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Spurious regressions and panel IV estimation : revisiting the causes of conflict
Christian, Paul; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2022
conflict. We offer diagnostic and corrective recommendations for avoiding the pitfalls arising from time series exhibiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414283
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Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
Akresh, Richard; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Thirumurthy, Harsha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to … exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different children's birth … cohorts to the fighting. The paper uniquely incorporates GPS information on the distance between survey villages and conflict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868141
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The power of WASH: Why sanitation matters for nutrition
Spears, Dean; Haddad, Lawrence James - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
Water, sanitation, and hygiene can have a profound effect on health and nutrition. A growing base of evidence on the link between sanitation, child height, and well-being has come at an opportune time, when the issue of sanitation and nutrition in developing countries has moved to the top of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204450
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Food safety: Reducing and managing food scares
Grace, Delia; McDermott, John - In: 2014–2015 Global Food Policy Report
A series of high-profile food-related scares around the globe has drawn attention to the issue of food safety and other health risks associated with agriculture. Because the scope of the problem is different at different levels of economic development, we need nuanced policy options to promote...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204451