In the estimation without controls for pre-war characteristics, the coefficient of the interaction term is positive but not statistically significant (panel A, column 1).
Our results suggest that, controlling for pre-war characteristics and cohort effects, returning refugees are more likely to have finished primary school than their contemporaries who never left the country.
Our results suggest that, controlling for pre-war characteristics and cohort effects, returning refugees are 16 to 28 percentage points more likely to have finished primary school than their contemporaries who never left the country.
Our findings show that, once we controlled for pre-war characteristics of the households, former refugees who returned to Burundi had better schooling outcomes than their contemporaries who never left the country.
Through strong U.S. support and intervention, these became protracted, proxy wars characteristic of the Cold War era, which had lasting and devastating economic, political, and social consequences.
Table 1 presents the socio-demographic and war-related characteristics of the samples.
In Toronto, as in other North American cities, the older neighborhoods, built predominantly before World War II, have characteristics that enhance their walkability, including higher residential densities, shorter block lengths, and the coexistence of residential and commercial areas in the same neighborhood.
Next week sees the publication of The Storm of War, subtitled with characteristic bravado: "A New History of the Second World War".
Many of his acolytes, who turned vehemently against the war, lamented his characteristic effort to find the middle ground.
It was the first blogged war, and the characteristic features of the form — instant response, ad-hominem attack, remoteness from life, the echo chamber of friends and enemies — helped define the tone of the debate about Iraq.
But Reappraisals contains some hope: "After war, the second characteristic of the 20th century was the rise and subsequent fall of the state … " he writes.
