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Aldashev, Gani; Chaara, Imane; Platteau, Jean-Philippe; … - 2010

We build a simple model of legal dualism in which a pro-poor legal reform, under certain conditions, causes the conflicting custom to go some way toward producing the change intended by the legislator. It then acts as an 'outside anchor' that exerts a 'magnet effect' on the custom. We illustrate...

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Land Inequality and Conflict Intensity

De Luca, Giacomo; Sekeris, Petros - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of land inequality on conflict intensity. A fundamental distinction with the … existing literature lies in the nature of inequality under consideration. We investigate how land inequality across landlords … intensity is non-monotonic in land inequality. In particular, the most severe conflicts occur for intermediate land inequality …

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Growing into and out of Social Conflict

Harms, Philipp; Zink, Stefan - 2002

We present a model of growth and distributional conflict that implies a non-monotonic relationship between average wealth and the likelihood of radical redistribution: while the net benefits of redistribution for members of the poor class are small at low stages of development, a shift towards...

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Negative returns: U.S. military policy and anti-american terrorism

Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2017

We investigate the effect of U.S. military aid and U.S. troop deployments on anti-American terrorism, using a sample of 106 countries between 1986 and 2011. We find that greater military commitment leads to more anti-American terrorism. We study the underlying mechanisms using a mediation...

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Polygyny, inequality, and social unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2020

are related to different dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …

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Polygyny, Inequality, and Social Unrest

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura - 2020

are related to diﬀerent dimensions of grievance-inducing and, partly, greed-related inequality, which may occur in … polygynous societies. These dimensions include (i) economic, reproductive and social inequality resulting in relative deprivation … among non-elite men; (ii) inequality within elites when it comes to the distribution of resources and inheritance, both …

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