Why are some countries more prone to social violence than others? Despite the fact that annual deaths due to homicides worldwide outnumber those due to organized armed conflict by a factor of roughly 3 to 1, this question has received very little attention from conflict and development...

Over 800 million people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America live in slums. Why? I argue that slums are a result of “disjointed modernization” and show that 70% of cross-country variation in slum incidence is explained by demographic, economic, and institutional factors. I trace the origins of...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde die Zahlungsbereitschaft amerikanischer Verbraucher für bestrahltes Hackfleisch untersucht. Obwohl aus Expertensicht die Lebensmittelbestrahlung als effektiv und sicher eingestuft wird, brachten Fleischverarbeiter sowie der Handel in den USA bestrahltes...