Essays in Empirical Development Economics

This thesis consists of three empirical chapters that examine issues in development economics. Chapter 1 focuses on the effects of civil wars on the welfare of individuals. I use a unique data set that contains information on war casualties of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, and exploit the variation in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swee, Eik Leong
Other Authors: Benjamin, Dwayne
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/26243