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Elections as a conflict processing mechanism

Przeworski, Adam; Rivero, Gonzalo; Xi, Tianyang - In: European journal of political economy 39 (2015), pp. 235-248

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Social Structure and Conflict : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Moscona, Jacob - 2018

to conflict and civil war. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by … individuals. We test for this link between segmentary lineage and conflict across 145 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa …-documented relationship between adverse rainfall shocks and conflict within Africa is only found within segmentary lineage societies …

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The geography of natural resources, ethnic inequality and civil conflicts

Lessmann, Christian; Steinkraus, Arne - In: European journal of political economy 59 (2019), pp. 33-51

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Segregation and the Quality of Government in a Cross-Section of Countries

Alesina, Alberto - 2008

, partly in response to policies. Our results suggest that more segregated countries in terms of ethnicity and language, i …

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Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes?

Sapienza, Paola - 2006

Economists have been reluctant to rely on culture as a possible determinant of economic phenomena. The notion of culture is so broad and the channels through which it can enter the economic discourse so vague that it is difficult to design testable hypotheses. In this paper we show this does...

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Private and Social Incentives for Fertility : Israeli Puzzles

Manski, Charles F. - 2002

Whereas most of the world has experienced decreasing fertility during the past half century, Israel has experienced a puzzling mix of trends. Completed fertility has decreased sharply in some ethnic-religious groups (Mizrahi Jews and non-Bedouin Arabs) and increased moderately in other groups...

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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes

Fisman, Raymond - 2012

We present evidence that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders and … religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …

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Diversity and Donations : The Effect of Religious and Ethnic Diversity on Charitable Giving

Andreoni, James - 2011

We explore the effects of local ethnic and religious diversity on individual donations to private charities. Using 10-year neighborhood-level panels derived from personal tax records in Canada, we find that diversity has a detrimental effect on charitable donations. A 10 percentage point...

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Praying for Rain

Espín-Sánchez, José-Antonio; Gil-Guirado, Salvador; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the climate as a determinant of religious belief. People believe in the divine when religious authorities (the "church") can credibly intervene in nature on their behalf. We present a model in which nature sets the pattern of rainfall over time and the church chooses when optimally to...

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Divided government, polarization, and policy : regression-discontinuity evidence from US states

Repetto, Luca; Andrés Sosa, Maximiliano - In: European journal of political economy 80 (2023), pp. 1-13

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