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Mounu Prem, Miguel E. Purroy et Juan F. Vargas
n° 22-1305, février 2022
Anti-personnel landmines are one of the main causes of civilian victimization in conflict-affected areas and a significant obstacle for post-war reconstruction. Demining campaigns are therefore a promising policy instrument to promote long-term development. We argue that the economic and social...
Rey Dang, Michel Simioni, Lubica Hikkerova et Jean-Michel Sahut
n° 181, février 2022
This study re-examines the relationship between women on corporate boards (WOCB) and corporate social performance (CSP) for a sample of companies from the Fortune 1000 ranking over the period 2004 to 2018 (ranked from 501 to 1000). To take into account the complex and non-linear relationship as...
Maxime Derex
vol. 377, n° 1843, janvier 2022
Cumulative cultural evolution (CCE)—defined as the process by which beneficial modifications are culturally transmitted and progressively accumulated over time—has long been argued to underlie the unparalleled diversity and complexity of human culture. In this paper, I argue that not just any kind...
James E. Alt, Amalie Jensen, Horacio Larreguy, David D. Lassen et John Marshall
n° 22-1292, janvier 2022
While social pressure is widely believed to influence voters, evidence that informa-tion passed between social ties affects beliefs, policy preferences, and voting behav-ior is limited. We investigate whether information about unemployment shocks dif-fuses through networks of strong and mostly weak...
Leopoldo Fergusson, Horacio Larreguy et Juan Felipe Riano
n° 22-1293, janvier 2022
We develop a model of the politics of state capacity building undertaken by incum-bent parties that have a comparative advantage in clientelism rather than in public goods provision. The model predicts that, when challenged by opponents, clientelistic incumbents have the incentive to prevent...
Christia Fotini, Horacio Larreguy, Norhan Muhab et Elizabeth Parker-Magyar
n° 22-1294, janvier 2022
Women’s exposure to gender-based and intimate partner violence (GBV and IPV) is particularly acute due to COVID-19, especially in the Global South. We test whether edutainment interventions that have been shown to success-fully combat GBV and IPV when delivered in person can be effectively de-...
Augustin Tapsoba
n° 22-1295, janvier 2022
Being able to assess conflict risk at local level is crucial for preventing political violence or mitigating its consequences. This paper develops a new approach for predicting the timing and location of conflict events from violence history data. It adapts the methodology developed in Tapsoba (...
Brandice Canes-Wrone, Christian Ponce de Leon et Sebastian Thieme
n° 22-129, janvier 2022
A longstanding question is whether policy uncertainty reduces private fixed investment in developing democracies. Yet studying the question empirically has proven challenging given that economic activity can cause as well as result from policy uncertainty. We investigate this issue within the...
Charlotte Cavaillé, Daniel L. Chen et Karine Van Der Straeten
n° 22-1297, janvier 2022
Many questions in political science require knowing not only what voters want (pref-erence orientation) but also how much they want it (preference intensity). In this paper, we assess two methods for measuring individual differences in preference intensity. One method — issue importance items —...
n° 22-130, janvier 2022
