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This paper uses efficiency wage theory and the existence of community-based sharing to hypothesize that labor markets in developing countries have multiple equilibria – the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with different levels of wages. The model is meant for...
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Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the available micro-level information about the people who are involved in these conflicts. We address...
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linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large … variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict across the country; surprisingly, food insecurity is not higher in conflict … conflict in the province where the household is located. We find robust evidence that households in provinces with higher …
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Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of … Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The effect of being directly impacted by conflict on a child's educational accumulation and … productivity. This paper explores the educational accumulation and enrollment gap created by being directly affected by conflict …
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This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using … women’s likelihood of employment increased as a consequence of the conflict. …
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, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …
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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 …
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The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the least likely to achieve upward mobility because of a range of negative neighbourhood effects. Most...
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Employing a lab experiment, we directly test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. We find evidence that employer concern that co-workers and customers will prefer collaborating...
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We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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