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The Cost of Separatism: Economic Consequences of the 1987-1989 Tibetan Unrests

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  • Feifei Sun
  • Xiaohua Yu

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The separatism and its related activities bring enormous economic costs to a society, which is however difficult to be estimated, because it involves both observable ethnic conflicts and unobservable psychological resistance. This paper investigates the economic consequences of the 1987–89 Tibetan Unrests with the synthetic control method and finds that per capita GDP in Tibet might be 27% higher for the period from 1988 to 2007 if the unrests had not happened. In addition, we implement several ‘placebo studies’ and assess the threats to the validity of causal inference to confirm the robustness of this study.

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  • Feifei Sun & Xiaohua Yu, 2020. "The Cost of Separatism: Economic Consequences of the 1987-1989 Tibetan Unrests," Defence and Peace Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(3), pages 315-340, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:defpea:v:31:y:2020:i:3:p:315-340
    DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2018.1556866
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    1. Huasheng Zhu & Duer Su & Fei Yao, 2022. "Spatio-Temporal Differences in Economic Security of the Prefecture-Level Cities in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau Region of China: Based on a Triple-Dimension Analytical Framework of Economic Geography," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(17), pages 1-29, August.
    2. Geloso, Vincent J. & Grier, Kevin B., 2022. "Love on the rocks: The causal effects of separatist governments in Quebec," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 71(C).

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