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Death as a measure of duration of conflict

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Ayla Ogus () (Department of Economics, Izmir University of Economics)
Sacit Hadi Akdede () (Adnan Menderes University)

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Abstract

This paper argues that number of deaths in a conflict can be a measure of duration and demonstrates that there are information gains to this approach. The well-known conflict database of International Peace Research Institute is compared with the database of Center for Systemic Peace which includes data on the number of deaths in addition to length of conflict. There are differences in the two datasets. The number and distribution of conflicts vary however duration analysis yields results that are robust over datasets. We also show that number of deaths, as a measure of duration, challenges some of the results based on number of years as a measure of duration. We can also argue that economic integration coincides with shorter duration of conflicts in terms of both deaths and years. International conflicts have a shorter life and have fewer deaths than domestic conflicts. Geographic or ethnic characteristics of conflicts are not robust over datasets nor over measure of duration.

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Paper provided by Izmir University of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 0804.

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Date of creation: Jun 2008
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Keywords: Duration models; violence; wars; conflict studies; ethnic conflict;

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H56 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - National Security and War
C41 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Duration Analysis
N40 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, and Regulation - - - General, International, or Comparative

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