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Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-evidence from Kosovo

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Households in Conflict Network - 2007

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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Conflict and the Formation of Political Beliefs in Africa

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Fenske, James - Households in Conflict Network - 2014

We test whether living through conflict in childhood changes political beliefs and engagement. We combine data on the …. Our results suggest that at the population level in Africa, conflict does not alter political beliefs, though the most …

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Political Violence, Drought and Child Malnutrition: Empirical Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India

Tranchant, Jean-Pierre; Justino, Patricia; Müller, … - Households in Conflict Network - 2014

period reversed the adverse effects of drought in communities previously affected by the conflict. Potential mechanisms … explaining the strong joint welfare effect of conflict and drought are the failure of economic coping strategies in areas of …

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Making Do with What You Have: Conflict, Firm Performance and Input Misallocation in Palestine

Amodio, Francesco; Maio, Michele Di - Households in Conflict Network - 2014

This paper investigates the effect of conflict on firms' output value and input misallocation in the context of … over time across districts experiencing differential changes in conflict intensity. We show how conflict diminishes the … domestically produced materials for imported ones. We also empirically identify the relative amount of conflict-induced input …

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Reputation, Group Structure and Social Tensions

Rohner, Dominic - Households in Conflict Network - 2008

Social tensions impede social cohesion and public goods provision. They can also be a driving force for more serious conflicts such as civil wars. Surprisingly, however, the emergence of social tensions has only rarely been studied in the literature. In the present contribution a game-theoretic...

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Livestock, Activity Choices and Conflict: Evidence from Burundi

Bundervoet, Tom - Households in Conflict Network - 2006

households in the conflict affected regions. In those regions, wealthier households do not reduce allocation to low-risk low … by conflict. …

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Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria

Collier, Paul; Vicente, Pedro C. - Households in Conflict Network - 2008

Following the wave of democratization during the 1990s, elections are now common in low-income societies. However, these elections are frequently flawed. We investigate the Nigerian general election of 2007, which is to date the largest election held in Africa and one seriously marred by...

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Carrot or stick? Redistributive transfers versus policing in contexts of civil unrest

Justino, Patricia - Households in Conflict Network - 2007

present empirical evidence for a panel of Indian states, where conflict, transfers and policing are treated as endogenous …

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Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War

Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - Households in Conflict Network - 2010

conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is … identified. The theory predicts conflict to be more likely when the geographical distribution of natural resources is uneven and … when a minority group has better chances to win a secessionist rather than a centrist conflict. For sharing rents, resource …

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The War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking: An Economic Evaluation of Plan Colombia

Mejía, Daniel; Restrepo, Pascual - Households in Conflict Network - 2008

This paper provides a thorough economic evaluation of the anti-drug policies implemented in Colombia between 2000 and 2006 under the so-called Plan Colombia. The paper develops a game theory model of the war against illegal drugs in producer countries. We explicitly model illegal drug markets,...

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