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  <title>EconStor Collection:</title>
  <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/47885" />
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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/47885</id>
  <updated>2026-04-28T21:41:52Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-28T21:41:52Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Access to clean water and human capital formation: Evidence from Indonesia</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339364" />
    <author>
      <name>Pohn, Lukas</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Schulze, Günther G.</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339364</id>
    <updated>2026-04-04T01:00:51Z</updated>
    <published>2026-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Access to clean water and human capital formation: Evidence from Indonesia
Authors: Pohn, Lukas; Schulze, Günther G.
Abstract: We estimate the causal effect of access to clean water sources on educational outcomes in Indonesia. Using the longitudinal Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) panel dataset, which follows the same individuals from 1993 to 2014, and applying household fixed effects allows us to identify the causal effect of access to clean water at different childhood stages on children's educational performance. We find that lifetime and early childhood access increases strongly the likelihood of completing junior and senior secondary school; later-gained access has no discernible effect on school performance. Our results underscore the need to provide access to clean water very early on.</summary>
    <dc:date>2026-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Political cycles of media repression</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/313112" />
    <author>
      <name>Schulze, Günther G.</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Zakharov, Nikita</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/313112</id>
    <updated>2025-04-24T12:35:27Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Political cycles of media repression
Authors: Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita
Abstract: In this paper, we unveil targeted repression against journalists as an elaborate strategy used by modern autocrats to mitigate the risk of mass protests during autocratic elections-a common threat to their rule. Repression is deployed to discipline the media before elections to secure favorable media coverage of the incumbent, thereby discourage public dissent. In contrast, the reigns are loosened during off-election periods to allow the media's credibility to be rebuilt. This dynamic creates distinct electoral cycles of media repression in autocracies. Our empirical study establishes these cycles using a unique granular dataset on the harassment of journalists in Putin's Russia and the predetermined, staggered timing of local elections. We then demonstrate the disciplinary effects on reporting about incumbents using a novel media coverage index. Finally, employing survey data, we show that media repression is extremely effective when it comes to dwarfing the threat of anti-government protests.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>FDI and the geography of terror</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/335203" />
    <author>
      <name>Majeed, Omer</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Schulze, Günther G.</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/335203</id>
    <updated>2026-01-23T02:00:57Z</updated>
    <published>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: FDI and the geography of terror
Authors: Majeed, Omer; Schulze, Günther G.
Abstract: This study uncovers a powerful, yet overlooked geographic dimension to terrorism's macroeconomic impact. Our findings reveal that terror's harm to FDI is profoundly shaped by attack location. Using Pakistan as a case study we show that assaults on economic and political centers cause far greater damage to FDI than attacks in peripheral areas. From 2001-2021, terrorism cost Pakistan $8.1 billion in lost FDI, eroding nearly 30% of its foreign capital stock. These results carry broad relevance, highlighting how localized violence can generate systemic, uneven macroeconomic consequences, which supports geographically calibrated policy responses to terror.</summary>
    <dc:date>2025-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Transit migration and crime: Evidence from Colombia</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281803" />
    <author>
      <name>Rey, Ramón</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Schulze, Günther G.</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Zakharov, Nikita</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/281803</id>
    <updated>2024-02-06T02:11:01Z</updated>
    <published>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Transit migration and crime: Evidence from Colombia
Authors: Rey, Ramón; Schulze, Günther G.; Zakharov, Nikita
Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of Venezuelan transit migration on crime rates in Colombia. We exploit the reopening of the VenezuelaColombia border in 2016, which has led to a surge in transit migration, and geospatial information about the distinct routes through which the migrants crossed Columbia. Employing a difference-in-differences approach and propensity score matching, we find that transit migration increased property crime rates in crossed municipalities, with both native Colombians and Venezuelan refugees seeing higher victimization rates. Violent crimes remained unaffected. This is the first study to document a link between transit migration and crime.</summary>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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