Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria
Wolfgang Stojetz, Piero Ronzani, Tilman Brück, Jeanne Pinay, Marco d'Errico
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 […]
Wolfgang Stojetz, Piero Ronzani, Tilman Brück, Jeanne Pinay, Marco d'Errico
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 […]
Stephen O’Connell, Onur Altındağ, and Rim Achour
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 […]
The Backlash Effect of State Coercion: Protest Resilience Under Costly and Targeted Repression
The relationship between state repression and protests is complex, as repression can deter or incite protests and escalate to violence. Additionally, it remains unclear which […]
Areas with violence problems have traditionally been considered the origin of migration flows but not their destination. We propose that the effect of violence on […]
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 […]
The impacts of armed conflict on human development: a review of the literature
Paola Vesco, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Jonathan Hall, Stefan Döring, Anneli Eriksson, Hanne Fjelde, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Maxine R. Leis, Hannes Mueller, Christopher Rauh, Ida Rudolfsen, Ashok Swain, Alexa Timlick, Phaidon T. B. Vassiliou, Johan von Schreeb, Nina von Uexkull, Håvard Hegre
The detrimental impacts of wars on human development are well documented across research domains, from public health to micro-economics. However, these impacts are studied in […]
The Lives and Livelihoods of the Displaced in Sudan: Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees
Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad, Jackline Wahba
As of 2022, Sudan was home to 1.1 million refugees and 3.7 million internally displaced persons(IDPs), along with a substantial population that had previously experienced […]
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced
Nik Stoop, Peter van der Windt, Leonid Peisakhin
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 […]
Piero Ronzani, Wolfgang Stojetz, Alia Aghajanian, Tilman Brück, Nadine Stammel, Maria Boettche, Diego Zardetto, Sarah Fenzl, Maen Salhab, Jessica M. Anderson, Arden Finn
Mental health risks are high in conflict settings, but mental health research mostly focuses on non-conflict settings. Survey data from active conflict settings often suffer […]
Piero Ronzani, Wolfgang Stojetz, Tilman Brück, Carlo Azzarri, Gianluigi Nico, Erdgin Mane
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Introducing the Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2022
Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad, Ruby Cheung
This paper describes the new Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey (SLMPS) 2022, the first nationally representative survey in Sudan in almost a decade. The paper […]
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
Ahmed Skali, Katharina Werner
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 […]
The bombing of hospitals and local violence dynamics in civil wars: Evidence from Syria
Regine Schwab, Werner Krause, Samer Massoud
The impact of civilian harm on strategic outcomes in war has been the subject of persistent debate. However, the literature has primarily focused on civilian […]
Civilian Harm and Military Legitimacy in War
Mara Revkin, Benjamin Krick, Jonathan Petkun
The legitimacy of armed forces in the eyes of civilians is increasingly recognized as crucial not only for battlefield effectiveness but also for conflict resolution […]
Violent Conflicts and Educational Outcomes: The LRA Insurgency in Northern Uganda Revisited
I investigate the consequences of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency on the educational outcomes of individuals in Northern Uganda. I employ an identification strategy […]