Collective Shocks and Social Preferences: A Global, Subnational Analysis

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 […]

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 […]

Medication Against Conflict

The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This paper closes this gap by evaluating the effect of […]