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Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements
American Economic Review: Insights, 2021 We study the causes of sustained participation in political movements. To identify the persistent effect of protest participation, we randomly indirectly incentivize Hong Kong university students into participation in an antiauthoritarian protest.
Leonardo Bursztyn +12 more
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Leadership in Social Movements: Evidence from the “Forty-Eighters” in the Civil War
The American Economic Review, 2021 This paper studies the role of leaders in the social movement against slavery that culminated in the US Civil War. Our analysis is organized around a natural experiment: leaders of the failed German revolution of 1848–1849 were expelled to the United ...
C. Dippel, Stephan Heblich
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Violent conflict and behavior: A field experiment in Burundi
, 2012 We use a series of field experiments in rural Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to conflict on social, risk, and time preferences. We find that conflict affects behavior: individuals exposed to violence display more altruistic behavior towards ...
M. Voors +5 more
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Building Reputation: Proxy Wars and Transnational Identities
Social Science Research Network, 2023 IZA DP No. 16340 JULY 2023 Building Reputation: Proxy Wars and Transnational Identities* In the context of a global security framework that mitigates interstate conflicts, nationstates establish a reputation for resolve by supporting foreign ...
Marion Mercier +2 more
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Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study
, 2012 We examine empirically the impact of ethnic divisions on conflict, by using a specification based on Esteban and Ray (2011). That theory links conflict intensity to three indices of ethnic distribution: polarization, fractionalization, and the Gini ...
J. Esteban, Laura Mayoral, Debraj Ray
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Learning in Games and the Interpretation of Natural Experiments
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022 We show that the treatment effect estimated by standard methods such as regression discontinuity analysis or difference-in-differences may contain a transient “learning effect” that is entangled with the long-term effect of the treatment.
D. Fudenberg, D. Levine
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Gallup Democracy in Exercising the NATO Membership Option: The Cases of Finland and Sweden
CESifo Economic Studies, 2022 The article asks whether the exercising of the NATO membership option is justified for Finland and Sweden in the light of their geopolitical state after Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
V. Kanniainen
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Building Nations Through Shared Experiences: Evidence from African Football
The American Economic Review, 2017 We examine whether shared collective experiences help build a national identity, by looking at the impact of national football teams’ victories in sub-Saharan Africa.
Emilio Depetris-Chauvín, Ruben Durante
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The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect
Social Science Research Network, 2022 IZA DP No. 14536 JULY 2021 The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect Insufficient sleep is commonplace, and understanding how this affects interpersonal conflict holds implications for personal and ...
D. Dickinson, David McEvoy, D. Bruner
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A Network of Thrones: Kinship and Conflict in Europe, 1495–1918
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 We construct a database linking European royal kinship networks, monarchies, and wars to study the effect of family ties on conflict. To establish causality, we exploit decreases in connection caused by apolitical deaths of rulers’ mutual relatives ...
Seth G. Benzell, Kevin Cooke
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