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Arbath, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul. H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2018

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an exogenous source of variations in population diversity across...

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Diversity and conflict

Eren Arbath, Cemal; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; … - 2019

This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity, rather than fractionalization or polarization across ethnic groups, has been pivotal to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of intrasocietal conflicts. Exploiting an...

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Breaking the mold: Thoughts on Punjab's future economic development

Singh, Nirvikar - 2015

The economy of Punjab state in India offers an interesting case study. Punjab has been for decades - and remains - one of India's better-off states, and so it tends not be included in the primary focus of national programs meant to reduce poverty or spur economic development. But, Punjab's...

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Violent conflict and the child quantity-quality tradeoff

Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 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 cohorts. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying...

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The n-player Hirshleifer contest

Ewerhart, Christian; Sun, Guang-Zhen - 2022

While the game-theoretic analysis of conflict is often based upon the assumption of multiplicative noise, additive noise such as assumed by Hirshleifer (1989) may be equally plausible depending on the application. In this paper, we examine the equilibrium set of the n-player difference-form...

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Workers, warriors and criminals: Social conflict in general equilibrium

Dal Bó, Ernesto; Dal Bó, Pedro - 2004

We analyze how economy-wide forces (i.e.shocks to terms of trade, technology and endowments) affect the intensity of social conflict. We see conflict phenomena such as crime and civil war as involving resource appropriation activities. We show that not all shocks that could make society richer...

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Democracy with group identity

Hillman, Arye L.; Metsuyanim, Kfir; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

Group-based identity undermines democracy by impeding democratic change of government. A substantial literature has … therefore studied how to make democracy consistent with group identity. We contribute to this literature by introducing the role … populations, accounting for income and other influences, group identity increased voter turnout on average by some 8 percentage …

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Equilibrium in the symmetric Hirshleifer contest: Uniqueness and characterization

Ewerhart, Christian; Sun, Guang-Zhen - 2018

The symmetric two-player Hirshleifer (1989) contest is shown to admit a unique equilibrium. The support of the equilibrium strategy is finite and includes, in particular, the zero expenditure level. We also establish a lower bound for the cardinality of the support and an upper bound for the...

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Diffusion of behavior in dynamic networks

König, Michael D. - 2017

We analyze binary choice models in communication networks, in which both, the formation of links in the network as well as the action choices are endogenous. We provide a complete characterization of the equilibrium action choices and networks, where agents choose their strategies - actions and...

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Minority salience and political extremism

Colussi, Tommaso; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2019

We investigate how changes in the salience of a minority group affect the majority group's voting behavior. Specifically, we focus on Muslim communities and their increased salience in daily life during Ramadan. To estimate a causal effect, we exploit exogenous variation in the distance of...

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