| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP14366
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| DP14366 Fanning The Flames: Rainfall Shocks, Inter-Ethnic Income Inequality, and Conflict Intensification in Mandate Palestine |
| Laura Panza; Eik Swee
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| 发表日期 | 2022-05-08
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| 出版年 | 2022
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We examine the effect of inter-ethnic income inequality on conflict intensification in Mandate Palestine, using a novel panel dataset comprising district-level characteristics and conflict intensity across 18 districts during 1926-1945. We instrument Jewish-Arab income inequality by
combining the annual variation in rainfall shocks with cross-sectional variation in pre-Mandate crop intensity, to extract exogenous changes in inequality between non-agrarian Jews and agrarian Arabs. We find a substantial e ect of inequality on conflict intensification, especially during
periods where the relationship between Arabs and Jews were particularly strained. Our estimates are driven by Arab-initiated attacks, reflecting the local average treatment effects of Arab farmers who move from agrarian work to violence in response to adverse rainfall shocks; in
other words, economic shocks coupled with existing economic segregation facilitate the transition into violence when opposing groups are economic substitutes. Further investigations suggest that inequality-driven violence was most likely an expression of resentment, rather
than the result of opportunity costs or appropriation |
| 主题 | Economic History
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| 关键词 | Inter-ethnic violence
Income inequality
Mandate palestine
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp14366-3
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546307
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Laura Panza,Eik Swee. DP14366 Fanning The Flames: Rainfall Shocks, Inter-Ethnic Income Inequality, and Conflict Intensification in Mandate Palestine. 2022.
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