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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Brück, Tilman - 2010

focus on World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS), and propose suggestions on how to improve questionnaires …

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Winter is Coming : The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900

Iyigun, Murat - 2017

This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a period that includes most of the Little Ice Age. We construct a geo-referenced and digitized database of conflicts in Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 1400-1900, which...

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Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality : A Panel Analysis

Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...

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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy

Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the size and development of...

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Corruption and the Shadow Economy : An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2021

This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We … also find that stricter regulations increase both corruption and the shadow economy …

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Gender and Corruption : A Reassessment

Debski, Julia - 2015

This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … the involvement of women in society and the absence of corruption. However, once country-fixed effects are acknowledged … corruption by 2.5 index points (scale from zero to ten). Surprisingly, the link between the share of women in the labor force and …

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Types of Communications Technology and Civil Conflict

Bharati, Tushar; Jetter, Michael; Malik, Muhammad Nauman - 2022

This paper introduces a unifying theoretical framework to understand the relationship between different types of communications technology (CT) and the incidence of civil conflict. In our model, one-way CT allows the government to broadcast messages they use to (mis)inform dissidents about the...

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Violent Conflict and Breastfeeding : The Case of Iraq

Diwakar, Vidya - 2017

This study explores the relationship between armed conflict and breastfeeding practices of Iraqi mothers. Using a unique pairing of the Iraq Body Count database, in conjunction with the 2006 and 2011 Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys for Iraq, we find that increases in conflict-related...

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Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff

Nepal, Apsara - 2018

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohort of children. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of...

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