Households in Conflict Network

The COVID-19 pandemic and intra-household tensions in Africa

Wolfgang Stojetz,  Tilman Brück,  Mekdim D. Regassa, Anke Hoeffler

This study examines the impact of countermeasures, such as stay-at-home orders and school closures, on stress within households during the COVID-19 pandemic. In a phone […]

Carrying the Past with you Across the Border: Long-term Effects of Conflict and Environmental Stress Exposure in Syria on the Social Well-being of Refugees in Jordan

Francisca Castro,  Tilman Brück,  Wolfgang Stojetz,  Hadi Jaafar

When refugees flee abroad, they carry the legacy of their traumatic experiences across borders. While there are over 43 million refugees worldwide, the long-term effects […]

Polycrisis in Agrifood Systems: Climate-Conflict Interactions and Labor Dynamics for Women and Youth in 21 African Countries

Wolfgang Stojetz,  Tilman Brück,  Carlo Azzarri, Erdgin Mane

This paper provides evidence on the impacts of armed conflict and climate change on individual labor intensity. Based on pooled labor force survey, climate, and […]

The Scar of Civil War: Exposure in (Early) Childhood and School Test Scores as a Teenager

Philip Verwimp, 

This paper investigates the effect of civil war exposure in (early) childhood on school test scores as a teenager. It uses test scores from the […]

High-Skilled Migration from Myanmar: Responses to Signals of Political and Economic Stabilization

Yashodhan Ghorpade,  Muhammad Saad Imtiaz and Theingie Han

In recent years Myanmar has witnessed considerable economic and political instability, leading many young people, particularly the higher-skilled, to consider migrating abroad for improved prospects. […]

From Conflict to Compromise: Experimental Evidence on Occupational Downgrading in Migration from Myanmar

Yashodhan Ghorpade,  Muhammad Saad Imtiaz

We examine the relationship between violent conflict and the willingness of potential migrants to accept lower skilled work (occupational downgrading). We develop a theoretical model […]