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Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve the same people in common cause against a common enemy. The groups compete for rents obtained from the public by...

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Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines

Crost, Benjamin; Felter, Joseph; Mansour, Hani; Rees, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It …-election casualties, which is consistent with the hypothesis that election fraud causes conflict. We conduct several robustness tests and …

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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict

Lacomba, Juan A.; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

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Tournaments and Multiple Productive Inputs: The Case of Performance Enhancing Drugs

Konrad, Kai A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper I consider the desirability of drugs that enhance cognitive abilities in the context of tournaments that are used as optimal labor contracts as in Lazear and Rosen (1981). Such drugs reduce the number of voluntary participants in a tournament, but increase individual and total...

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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism

Gang, Ira N.; Epstein, Gil S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to enhance their followers’ observance level. We model three stylized situations under which fundamentalist groups function, examining the intensity of observance in each. We find that, under reasonable...

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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David A.; Klor, Esteban F.; Miaari, Sami H.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

support more radical factions and more radical attitudes towards the conflict. This effect is temporary, however, and vanishes …

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The Interaction of Tax Exemptions and Individual Tax Reform Preferences

Barbaro, Salvatore; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

The individual voting behavior on the abolishment of single income-tax exemptions crucially depends on how strongly agents are affected by other deduction possibilities that are not at stake in the reform plans of the government. The interactions depend (i) on the shape of the tax schedule, and...

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‘Living’ Wage, Class Conflict and Ethnic Strife

Dasgupta, Indraneel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

, impact on distribution via the joint determination of class conflict between workers and employers, and ‘ethnic’ conflict …

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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation

Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

hinges on the dominance of its ideologically closer party and, in general, the coalition/opposition blocks of parties under … un-enforced party or coalition/opposition discipline. Such dominance is defined in terms of ideological inclination … weighted by power. Our second result clarifies how the success of an interest group hinges on the dominance of its ideology in …

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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War)

Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the …

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