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Years of life lost to revolution and war in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic Iran based on a weighted average of other Middle East...

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The Economics of Coercion and Conflict : An Introduction

Harrison, Mark - 2013

This chapter introduces the author's selected papers on the economics of coercion and conflict. It defines coercion and … conflict and relates them. In conflict, adversaries make costly investments in the means of coercion. The application of … coercion does not remove choice but limits it to options that leave the victim worse off than before. Coercion and conflict are …

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The effects of wartime institutions on households' ability to cope with shocks : evidence for Colombia

Ibáñez, Ana María; Arteaga, Julián; Cárdenas … - 2019

heterogeneous impact by the level of rebelocracy. Using a household panel in four conflict regions in Colombia, the estimation …

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Fighting Fire with Aid : Development Assistance as Counterinsurency Tool - Evidence for Colombia

Sanchez-Cuevas, Edgar H. - 2018

International Development (USAID)— on the intensity of municipality-level armed conflict in Colombia, for the period 2009-2013. To …

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Unintended Consequences of Alternative Development Programs : Evidence From Colombia's Illegal Crop Substitution

Llanes, Lucas Marín - 2020

While force eradication through aerial spraying has large social costs, there is no evidence of the unexpected consequences of alternative development programs. This paper suggests an unintended effect of the largest crop substitution program in the world on political violence exploiting data on...

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Let the Rebels Rule? Evidence on the Economic Effects of Rebel Governance in Colombia

Perez-Cardona, Santiago - 2022

I study the impact of rebel governance on economic development in rural Colombia. In 1998 the Colombian government created a 42,000 square km demilitarized zone (DMZ) to negotiate with FARC, Colombia's largest and oldest rebel group. Using a spatial regression discontinuity design, I exploit the...

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Enforcing regulation under illicit adaptation

Gonzalez Lira, Andres; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2018

regime in unanticipated ways to circumvent enforcement. We present a research strategy that uncovers such reactions, and … enforcement. Data collected from fishermen, vendors, and consumers allow us to document the upstream, downstream, spillover, and … equilibrium effects of enforcement on the entire supply chain. The consumer information campaign generates two-thirds of the gains …

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Effect of enforcement shock on pushers' activities : evidence from an Asian drug-selling gang

Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Xu, Haibo - 2019

quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain …. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by the pushers' profit targeting behavior. Given that enforcement shocks …

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Active labor market policies and crime : unemployment increase crime among youth, while active labor market policies can mitigate the problem

Tranæs, Torben - 2015

Active labor market programs continue to receive high priority in wealthy countries despite the fact that the benefits appear small relative to the costs. This apparent discrepancy suggests that the programs may have a broader purpose than simply increasing employment - for instance, preventing...

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Socio-economic and demographic factors of crime in Germany : evidence from panel data of the German states

Entorf, Horst; Spengler, Hannes - 1998 - (This version: 20 April 1998)

Our study is based on the traditional Becker-Ehrlich deterrence model, but we analyse the model in the face of currently discussed factors of crime like demographic changes, youth-unemployment and income inequality. We use a panel of the German Laender (states) that allows us to exploit...

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