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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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fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements. …
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Due to economic interconnectedness across regions, locally confined violent conflict may have welfare effects far … transportation network propagates the effects of violent conflict to distant locations. Combining granular geospatial information on … agricultural areas, roads, and itineraries, we show that conflict along transportation routes significantly increases food prices …
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Genocides and mass atrocities do not arise spontaneously, but tend to be meticulously sourced and managed. As such the concern in this paper is with the role of businesses in these processes, with a particular focus on the agency and decision making of entrepreneurs and managers. We critically...
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attainment of children in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. By combining 66 rounds of DHS surveys with geo-coded conflict information …, our study contextualizes the findings of a series of country-specific case studies on the effects of conflict on education … dynamics in education. The effects of conflict on education are strongly context dependent. High-intensity conflicts reduce …
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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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, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying intensity. Our difference-in-differences analysis shows that … women in villages affected by civil conflict increased their actual and desired fertility during the conflict by 22 percent … was the main pathway leading to reduced child height, as opposed to direct impacts of the conflict. This likely occurred …
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395429
, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560394
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or...
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