“Democracy Tested: Political Violence and Global Elections” …at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is an applied micro-economist working in the fields of political economy and development economics, with particular research…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …Violence: Pogroms in Comparative Perspective Claudia Torres Patino (Harvard University). Under Harm: Paradoxes of the Law in Action in the Mexican Street Sex Economy Liana Woskie (London School of Economics)….
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …(Economics, Bocconi University), and Breno Sampaio (Economics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco). Economic Shocks, Social Insurance, and Violent Crimes: Evidence from Brazil Gianmarco Daniele and Marco Le Moglie (Economics, Bocconi University)….
Intrahousehold Income Inequality and Conflict: Testing an Economic Model of Domestic Violence in Kerala, India …methods of economics and sociology. A major aim of our research is to estimate the causal effect of increases in female income on marital violence. To test for a causal…
War and Economic Development in Vietnam and Sierra Leone …the Journal of Development Economics. Many poverty trap models of economic growth predict that sufficiently severe war damage to the capital stock could lead to a “conflict trap” that condemns…
The Political-Criminal Nexus: Emerging Violent Threat to Governability in the Twenty-First Century …collaboration. In patron-client relationships, individuals, criminal and noncriminal, come to accept that solutions to economic and personal needs and conflicts depend on certain leaders. Markets and economics are also affected….
HFG At The Crossroads Forum …be focusing their energies in the days to come if the goal is to advance knowledge about reducing violence? Morgan Williams, Assistant Professor of Economics, Barnard College Joseph B. Richardson…
“Why We Fight”: Dr. Chris Blattman …Random House: Why We Fight draws on decades of economics, political science, psychology, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war, showing that violence is…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Emerging Scholars …in Comparative Perspective Liana Woskie (London School of Economics). Quantifying Structural Violence: Female Sterilization and Normalized State Repression in Healthcare For more information contact: Nyeleti Honwana, Program Officer info@hfg.org |…
“Illiberal Ideas Are Having a Negative Effect on Our Political Culture”: A Conversation with Thomas Main …of the economics of taxation. Expert economists came to the conclusion that the income tax was unjustifiable. Their thinking got boiled down into a discrete public policy idea: lower the…
