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Bounding Causes of Effects With Mediators by Dawid, Philip, Humphreys, Macartan, Musio, Monica

“…Suppose X and Y are binary exposure and outcome variables, and we have full knowledge of the distribution of Y, given application of X. We are interested in…”
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Who Fights? The Determinants of Participation in Civil War by Humphreys, Macartan, Weinstein, Jeremy M.

“…A range of seemingly rival theories attempt to explain why some individuals take extraordinary risks by choosing to participate in armed conflict. To date,…”
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Why Does Ethnic Diversity Undermine Public Goods Provision? by HABYARIMANA, JAMES, HUMPHREYS, MACARTAN, POSNER, DANIEL N., WEINSTEIN, JEREMY M.

“…A large and growing literature links high levels of ethnic diversity to low levels of public goods provision. Yet although the empirical connection between…”
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Public support for global vaccine sharing in the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from Germany by Geissler, Ferdinand, Hartmann, Felix, Humphreys, Macartan, Klüver, Heike, Giesecke, Johannes

“…By September 2021 an estimated 32% of the global population was fully vaccinated for COVID-19 but the global distribution of vaccines was extremely unequal,…”
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Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries by Egger, Dennis, Miguel, Edward, Warren, Shana S, Shenoy, Ashish, Collins, Elliott, Karlan, Dean, Parkerson, Doug, Mobarak, A. Mushfiq, Fink, Günther, Udry, Christopher, Walker, Michael, Haushofer, Johannes, Larreboure, Magdalena, Athey, Susan, Lopez-Pena, Paula, Benhachmi, Salim, Humphreys, Macartan, Lowe, Layna, Meriggi, Niccoló F, Wabwire, Andrew, Davis, C. Austin, Pape, Utz Johann, Graff, Tilman, Voors, Maarten, Nekesa, Carolyn, Vernot, Corey

“…Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most…”
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Citizen Attitudes Toward Traditional and State Authorities: Substitutes or Complements? by van der Windt, Peter, Humphreys, Macartan, Medina, Lily, Timmons, Jeffrey F, Voors, Maarten

“…Do citizens view state and traditional authorities as substitutes or complements? Past work has been divided on this question. Some scholars point to…”
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Can Development Aid Contribute to Social Cohesion after Civil War? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia by Fearon, James D., Humphreys, Macartan, Weinstein, Jeremy M.

“…A field experiment in which villages in northern Liberia were randomly assigned to receive international development assistance provides evidence that the…”
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How Does Development Assistance Affect Collective Action Capacity? Results from a Field Experiment in Post-Conflict Liberia by FEARON, JAMES D., HUMPHREYS, MACARTAN, WEINSTEIN, JEREMY M.

“…Social cooperation is critical to a wide variety of political and economic outcomes. For this reason, international donors have embraced interventions designed…”
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Spatial Models, Cognitive Metrics, and Majority Rule Equilibria by Humphreys, Macartan, Laver, Michael

“…Long-standing results demonstrate that, if policy choices are defined in spaces with more than one dimension, majority-rule equilibrium fails to exist for a…”
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Political violence and endogenous growth by Humphreys, Macartan

“…I provide an illustration of a dynamic version of Robert Bates’ conjecture that technologies of coercion can be critical to generate prosperity. The model…”
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Political Institutions and Economic Policies: Lessons from Africa by HUMPHREYS, MACARTAN, BATES, ROBERT

“…Many assert that the economic problems of Africa possess political origins. In particular, they point to a lack of political accountability and argue that…”
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Natural Resources, Conflict, and Conflict Resolution: Uncovering the Mechanisms by Humphreys, Macartan

“…The interpretation of the resource-conflict link that has become most publicized-the rebel greed hypothesis-depends on just one of many plausible mechanisms…”
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Commentary: Biases in the assessment of long-run effects of deworming by Humphreys, Macartan

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The aggregation challenge by Humphreys, Macartan, Scacco, Alexandra

“…Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer have had an enormous impact on scholarship on the political economy of development. But as RCTs have become more central in this…”
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Incentives can spur COVID-19 vaccination uptake by Klüver, Heike, Hartmann, Felix, Humphreys, Macartan, Geissler, Ferdinand, Giesecke, Johannes

“…Recent evidence suggests that vaccination hesitancy is too high in many countries to sustainably contain COVID-19. Using a factorial survey experiment…”
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Information Technology and Political Engagement: Mixed Evidence from Uganda by Grossman, Guy, Humphreys, Macartan, Sacramone-Lutz, Gabriella

“…This study integrates three related field experiments to learn about how information communications technology (ICT) innovations can affect who communicates…”
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Mixing Methods: A Bayesian Approach by HUMPHREYS, MACARTAN, JACOBS, ALAN M.

“…We develop an approach to multimethod research that generates joint learning from quantitative and qualitative evidence. The framework—Bayesian integration of…”
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Crowdseeding in Eastern Congo: Using Cell Phones to Collect Conflict Events Data in Real Time by Van der Windt, Peter, Humphreys, Macartan

“…Poor-quality data about conflict events can hinder humanitarian responses and bias academic research. There is increasing recognition of the role that new…”
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Handling and Manhandling Civilians in Civil War by HUMPHREYS, MACARTAN, WEINSTEIN, JEREMY M.

“…The toll of civil conflict is largely borne by civilian populations, as warring factions target non-combatants through campaigns of violence. But significant…”
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“I wld like u WMP to extend electricity 2 our village”: On Information Technology and Interest Articulation by GROSSMAN, GUY, HUMPHREYS, MACARTAN, SACRAMONE-LUTZ, GABRIELLA

“…How does access to information communication technology (ICT) affect who gets heard and what gets communicated to politicians? On the one hand, ICT can lower…”
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