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Conflict and Livelihood Decisions in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh
__Abstract__
We analyse rural household livelihood and child school enrolment
decisions
in the post-conflict setting of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region of
Bangladesh. What makes this paper innovative is the use of current subjective perceptions
regarding the possibility of violence in the future and past actual experiences
of violence in explaining household economic decision-making. Preferences
are endogenous in line with behavioural economics. Regression results show that
heightened subjective perceptions of future violence and past actual experiences
of conflict influence current consumption and child enrolment and could encourage
risky mixed crop cultivation. The trauma emanating from past experiences
combined with current high perceptions of risk of violence may induce bolder
and riskier behaviour in line with prospect theories of risk. Furthermore, a postconflic
Droplet microfluidic preparation of au nanoparticles-coated chitosan microbeads for flow-through surface-enhanced Raman scattering detection
10.1007/s10404-010-0639-7Microfluidics and Nanofluidics961175-118