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Poverty, voracity, and growth
Strulik, Holger - In: Journal of development economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 396-403
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015121867
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Borderline disorder: (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294782
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Borderline disorder : (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306383
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249737
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(De facto) historical ethnic borders and land tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023
We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276040
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Voracity and growth reconsidered
Strulik, Holger (contributor) - 2008
rights ; common pool resources ; voracity ; fractionalization …-assessment of the voracity effect. Economic and social performance depends no longer on character traits (the assumed curvature of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003725568
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Voracity and Growth Reconsidered
Strulik, Holger - 2008
-assessment of the voracity effect. Economic and social performance depends no longer on character traits (the assumed curvature of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724031
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Poverty, voracity, and growth
Strulik, Holger - 2011
consumption. It suggests a new view of the so-called voracity effect according to which windfall gains in productivity induce … in decline and suffciently close to stagnation. -- Economic growth ; property rights ; common pool resources ; voracity … ; fractionalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012700
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The nature of conflict
Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded - 2015
the degree of fractionalization and polarization across ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups in the national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309623
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How ethnic diversity affects economic development?
Gören, Erkan - 2013 - This version: October 2012
the concept of ethnic fractionalization is a strong predictive measure for the direct effect of ethnicity on growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733469