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as the incidence of violence. Between 2009 and 2014, El Salvador implemented the Temporary Income Support Program, which …
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. The authors hypothesize that it affects violence, misbehaviors, and academic outcomes by modulating emotional regulation …
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The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to increase in many fragile and conflict-affected areas where half of the extreme poor are expected to reside by 2030. These areas are also where the least evidence exists on how to...
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This paper analyzes the magnitude and predictors of misreporting on intimate partner and sexual violence in Nigeria and … face-to-face method. In Rwanda, intimate partner violence rates increase by 100 percent, and in Nigeria, they increase by … violence and biased correlations and treatment effect estimates …
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This study examines the association of unemployment variation with intimate partner violence using representative data … rate is associated with an increase in the incidence of physical violence against women by 0.50 percentage points, or 2 ….52 percentage points, or 2.87 percent. That an improvement in women's employment opportunities is associated with increased violence …
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-based violence along the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)-Rwanda border. The training reduces bribe payment by 5 percentage points … gender-based violence by 5.4 percentage points (30.5 percentage points among compliers). The paper assesses competing …
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Intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence against women in conflict and non-conflict settings, but … in conflict settings it often receives less attention than other forms of gender-based violence, such as conflict …-related sexual violence. Using data from the 2008 and 2013 Domestic Violence module of the Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey …
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One-fifth of the world's population lives in countries affected by fragility, violence and conflict, impeding long … major increases in violence, that these effects persist for up to six months, and that larger firms are more responsive to … violence. The paper concludes with a discussion of potential mechanisms, firms' strategic adaptations, and implications for …
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medium-size enterprises in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts. It identifies potentially promising, scalable … of regular business-related entrepreneurial stressors with the uncertainties of a fragile, conflict, and violence … income in fragile, conflict, and violence-affected contexts, future research might benefit from evaluating whether the …
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Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS/ISIL or Daesh) have shown an ability to attract radicalized individuals from many countries to join their ranks. Using a novel data set that reports countries of residence and educational levels of a large...
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