{"id":2926,"date":"2020-01-28T20:55:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T01:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2020-02-14T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T18:22:12","slug":"executive-summary-poverty-and-witch-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/content-type\/executive-summary-poverty-and-witch-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Summary: &#8220;Poverty and Witch Killing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\r\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/news\/media\/releases\/2003\/06\/25_witches.shtml\" title=\"Executive Summary of &quot;Poverty and Witch Killing&quot;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\r\n\t\tExecutive Summary of &#8220;Poverty and Witch Killing&#8221;\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t<\/h1>\r\n<h3>\r\n\t\tSummary of an article by Edward Miguel\r\n\t<\/h3>\r\n\t<p>Unsplash.com<\/p>\r\n\t<p>In this study, Edward Miguel analyzes the relationship between witch killings and extreme weather that particularly affects the livelihoods of the poor in Tanzania. What he finds suggests that witch killings might be related to the desperation people feel when things go wrong.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeley.edu\/news\/media\/releases\/2003\/06\/25_witches.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead the summary article\r\n\t\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t<p><strong>Citation:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/restud.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/72\/4\/1153.abstract\">Miguel, Edward. 2005. &#8220;Poverty and Witch Killing.&#8221; <em>Review of Economic Studies<\/em> 72 (4): 1153-1172. <\/a><\/p>\r\n\t<p>Note: <a href=\"http:\/\/emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu\/research\/poverty-and-witch-killing\">The data the author used<\/a> is available on the author\u2019s website<\/p>\r\n\t<p>Related Content:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/browse-by-content-type\/full-article-poverty-and-witch-killing\/\">Full Article: &#8220;Poverty and Witch Killing&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This executive summary provides a synopsis of an article in which Edward Miguel analyzed the relationship between witch killings and extreme weather among the poor in Tanzania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":2800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[90,60,309,96,89,80,87,258],"tags":[631,263,630,569,189,629,634,628,633,632],"class_list":["post-2926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture-browse-by-research-topic","category-content-type","category-executive-summaries","category-health-browse-by-research-topic","category-browse-by-research-topic","category-research-by-region","category-sub-saharan-africa","category-security-and-conflict","tag-desperation","tag-executive-summary","tag-extreme-poverty","tag-gender","tag-natural-experiment","tag-rainfall-patterns","tag-religious-violence","tag-tanzania","tag-violence","tag-witchery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2928,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2926\/revisions\/2928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}