Read from a series of more than 400 working papers
Neil Ferguson, Tatiana Orozco García
An increasing proportion of the world’s poor live in fragile states, and efforts to build economic and social stability increasingly focus on those settings. Fragility […]
Srinivas Goli, Nandeen Bhattacharyya, Shalem Balla, Harchand Ram
This study analyses the adverse impact of different types of conflicts on child mortality and its mechanisms across a large group of countries. Our analysis […]
Climate, conflict, and food Security: A systematic review of household-level evidence (2020–2025)
Tilman Brück, Mahlet Degefu Awoke
Climate and conflict crises increasingly occur together, creating compounded risks for household food security. This review synthesizes evidence from 37 quantitative studies published 2020–2025 on […]
Collective Shocks and Social Preferences: A Global, Subnational Analysis
James Igoe Walsh, Alexander Kustov, Ivan Flores Martinez
While some studies of conflicts, natural disasters, and economic setbacks find these negative collective shocks make people more prosocial, others find they reduce cooperation. These […]
The Nationwide Camp Closure Policy in Iraq and the Welfare of Displaced Populations
After the end of their conflict with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Iraqi government initiated a policy to close all […]
A New Expanded Dataset to Study Refugee Camps in Sub-Saharan Africa 1999–2024
Colette Salemi, Sebastian Anti, Jonathan Rigberg, Karishma Silva, Johannes Hoogeveen
One in five refugees live in camps or camp-like settings, and three-quarters of encamped refugees are in sub-Saharan Africa. No reliable public data has systematically […]
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