Registration Open: Fragile Lives 2024
Registration is now open for the international expert conference ‘Fragile Lives 2024‘! The conference, which will take place on 1-2 October 2024, will host a […]
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Working Papers
Read from a series of more than 400 working papers
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Stephen O’Connell, Onur Altındağ, and Rim Achour
We examine how allocating a fixed social assistance budget across localities using different prioritization rules affects both beneficiary selection and program effectiveness. By simulating each […]
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The Backlash Effect of State Coercion: Protest Resilience Under Costly and Targeted Repression
The relationship between state repression and protests is complex, as repression can deter or incite protests and escalate to violence. Additionally, it remains unclear which […]
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Areas with violence problems have traditionally been considered the origin of migration flows but not their destination. We propose that the effect of violence on […]
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You’re not like us! Ethnic discrimination and national belonging in Nigeria
This study examined the effect of ethnic discrimination on Nigerians’ sense of national identification relative to ethnic identification. The regression results revealed that the experience […]
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The impacts of armed conflict on human development: a review of the literature
Paola Vesco, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Jonathan Hall, Stefan Döring, Anneli Eriksson, Hanne Fjelde, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Maxine R. Leis, Hannes Mueller, Christopher Rauh, Ida Rudolfsen, Ashok Swain, Alexa Timlick, Phaidon T. B. Vassiliou, Johan von Schreeb, Nina von Uexkull, Håvard Hegre
The detrimental impacts of wars on human development are well documented across research domains, from public health to micro-economics. However, these impacts are studied in […]
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The Lives and Livelihoods of the Displaced in Sudan: Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees
Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad, Jackline Wahba
As of 2022, Sudan was home to 1.1 million refugees and 3.7 million internally displaced persons(IDPs), along with a substantial population that had previously experienced […]
