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Purkayastha -- Soldiers and scholars in a world of growing interdependence / John Allen Williams -- Conflict, peacemaking and the …
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We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus...
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, Intergenerational Processes, and Aging. Data collection began almost three decades ago on 40,000 soldiers from the Union Army in the US … large sample of African-American soldiers and an oversampling of soldiers from major US cities have been added. Hundreds of … historical maps containing public health data have been geocoded to place soldiers and their family members in a geospatial …
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We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce conflict over the control of territory (what we call "factor conflict") and increase conflict over the appropriation of surplus...
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leaders do use economic incentives, but they also avail themselves of other strategies to motivate their soldiers, including …
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During the Civil War not all men served honorably and this was known by everyone in their communities. We study how shame and ostracism affect behavior by examining whether men who deserted from the Union Army, and who faced no legal sanctions once the war was over, returned home or whether they...
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