Religion and prejudice: Micro-level evidence from Africa

While scholarship on religious tolerance has grown, little is known about how (non)religious identity shapes prejudice in highly religious societies, particularly in the Global South. […]

Conflict exposure and healthcare perceptions: Micro-level evidence from Africa

Although considerable research has examined the impact of violent conflict on health outcomes in Africa—such as undernutrition, child mortality, and maternal mortality—a significant gap remains […]

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

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

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 […]

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

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. […]

Let the poor breathe! Poverty and anti-government protests in Nigeria

Despite the rising incidence of poverty in Nigeria and the increasing frequency of anti-government protests driven by citizens’ inability to meet their basic food needs, […]

Conflict, Aspirations, and Women’s Empowerment: Household Survey Evidence from Farmer-Herder Conflicts in Nigeria

Using original survey data from three states in rural, southwestern Nigeria, this study examines the relationship between conflict intensity at various distances and the empowerment […]

Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria

Polycrises created by violent conflict and climate change are ubiquitous. Yet, the impacts of conflict and climatic shocks on human behavior and welfare have largely […]

Building Resilience in Conflict Areas: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Borno State in North-east Nigeria

This paper provides novel evidence on the impacts of agricultural support programs in acute emergency settings, by studying resilience in mostly rural areas in the […]

Geographic poverty targeting in social protection programs: Evidence from a nationwide policy experiment

We examine how allocating a fixed social assistance budget across localities using different prioritization rules affects both beneficiary selection and program effectiveness. By simulating each […]

You’re not like us! Ethnic discrimination and national belonging in Nigeria

This study examined the effect of ethnic discrimination on Nigerians’ sense of national identification relative to ethnic identification. The regression results revealed that the experience […]

Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced

Tens of millions of individuals are displaced due to violence, and most are hosted by other households in their home countries. We ask what motivates […]

Inverted “U” of fear: The paradox of conflict exposure and expected victimization in Kaduna, Nigeria

Using novel survey data collected from the Northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, this study examines the effect of exposure to violent conflict on people’s expectation […]

Armed conflict and gendered participation in agrifood systems: Survey evidence from 29 African countries

This paper provides empirical microlevel evidence on the gendered impacts of armed conflict on economic activity in agriculture and other sectors, combining large-N sex-disaggregated survey […]

Suffering and smiling: What determines happiness among Nigerians?

Using the Wave 7 World Values Survey (WVS) dataset, this study examined the determinants of happiness among Nigerians with a focus on exposure to violent […]

The Power of Dialogue: Forced Displacement and Social Integration amid an Islamist Insurgency in Mozambique

With global forced displacement at an unprecedented level, there is an increasing demand for low-cost interventions that can reduce tension between displaced persons and host […]

Violent Conflict and Parochial Trust: Lab-in-the-Field and Survey Evidence

How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (firsthand) experience with conflict induces parochialism: trust towards out-groups worsens, but trust towards in-groups, owing […]

Fear to Vote: Explosions, Salience, and Elections

Criminal groups use violence strategically to manipulate the behavior of victims and bystanders. At the same time, violence is a stimulus that causes fear, which […]

You’re not welcome! Violence and support for a grazing ban policy in Kaduna, Nigeria

This study examined the effect of victimization – i.e., the concrete experience of violence – on support for a policy banning the opening grazing of […]

Violent conflict and hostility towards ethno-religious outgroups in Nigeria

This study examined the effect of exposure to violent conflict on hostility towards ethnic and religious outgroups among Nigeria’s population and among its two major […]

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