Nationality, Tribe and Trade: An Experiment on Intergroup Discrimination at the Sierra Leone–Guinea Border

Farmer–herder conflicts across West Africa are conventionally attributed to competition over land and water. Yet, identity – ethnic difference and outsider status – features prominently […]

Mobile Phones and Gender Norms: Evidence from Afghanistan

This paper examines the impact of mobile phone expansion on gender norms in Afghanistan. We combine cell tower data from the country’s largest operator with […]

Gender and migration aspirations in Nigeria: A comparative study of the states of Edo and Kaduna

This study examined the effect of gender on migration aspirations in the states of Kaduna and Edo, which are in Nigeria’s Northern and Southern Regions […]

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 […]

Undead Past: What Drives Support for the Secessionist Goal of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Nigeria?

Although the secessionist conflict in Nigeria’s Eastern Region has persisted for over two decades and become increasingly violent, no study has, to the best of […]

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