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Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

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The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda

Schindler, Kati; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of …

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Who Does What in a Household after Genocide?: Evidence from Rwanda

Schindler, Kati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two...

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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub- Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping...

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Land Access, Tenure and Investment in Post-War Northern Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The relationship between land investment and tenure security is usually tested in land scarce but peaceful areas. This article examines instead the effects of land abundance and war for investment and tenure security. The paper demonstrates that war enhances land abundance. This implies that...

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Terrorism and Trade

Nitsch, Volker; Schumacher, Dieter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

bilateral trade flows between more than 200 countries over the period from 1960 to 1993. Applying an augmented gravity model that includes several measures of terrorism and largescale violence, we find compelling evidence that terrorist actions reduce the volume of trade; a doubling in the number...

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How Many Bucks in a Bang: On the Estimation of the Economic Costs of Conflict

Groot, Olaf J. de; Brück, Tilman; Bozzoli, Carlos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

The estimation of the costs of conflict is currently receiving a lot of attention in the literature. This paper aims to … give a thorough overview of the existing literature, first by addressing the history of case studies that address conflict … costs and second by looking at the existing body of cross-country analyses for conflict costs. In addition to the existing …

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Measuring Ethno-Linguistic Affinity between Nations

Groot, Olaf J. de - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …

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Violent Conflict and Inequality

Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

around five years after the end of a conflict, it declines again to pre-war levels within the end of the first post …-war period. Lagged effects of conflict and only subsequent adjustments of redistributive policies in the period of post …

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Foreign Interventions and Abuse of Civilians during the Peruvian Civil War

Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

The international community has a declared intention to protect innocent civilians from direct and deliberate violence in civil conflicts, but its track record of actually doing so is mixed. Using a new monthly time-series data set, we explore the factors associated with variations in the number...

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