Violence Begets Violence: Armed conflict and domestic sexual violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
While the study of the causes of civil conflict is a well-established sub-discipline in the conflict literature, less is known about how political violence affects […]
Economic Shocks and Rebel Tactics
Why do rebels vary their tactics? Some insurgents employ terrorism and hit-and run attacks; others wage conventional wars against state rivals. I argue rebels’ tactical […]
Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa
Dominic Rohner, Michael D. König Mathias Thoenig Fabrizio Zilibotti
We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The […]
The Long-lasting Shadow of the Allied Occupation of Austria on its Spatial Equilibrium
Christoph Eder, Martin Halla
As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four different occupation zones for 10 years. Before tight travel restrictions came into place, […]
Missing Men: World War II Casualties and Structural Change
A shock to the sector composition of the local labor market can affect long-run economic development of a location. Because structural change ultimately shifts labor […]
Export Crops and Civil Conflict
Benjamin Crost, Joseph H. Felter
Many governments and international experts consider a move towards high-value export crops, such as fruits and vegetables, as an important opportunity for economic growth and […]
Causes and Consequence of Violent Extremism in Northeast Nigeria
The consequence of violent extremism on rural livelihoods has received less attention in academic literature. This paper addresses three fundamental questions: What are the socio-economic […]
Fear and Political Participation: Evidence from Africa
Marc Rockmore, Kevin M. Morrison
Research finds that personal exposure to violence or crime increases political participation. The effects of fear, however, have not been studied. Since the number of […]
Gender bias in education during conflict Evidence from Assam
Prakarsh Singh, Sutanuka Roy
Using a large-scale novel panel dataset (2005–14) on schools from the Indian state of Assam, we test for the impact of violent conflict on female […]
Chris Blattman, Edward Miguel, Michal Bauer Julie Chytilová Joseph Henrich Tamar Mitts
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to […]
Calamity, Conflict and Cash Transfers: How Violence Affects Access to Aid in Pakistan
I examine how prior exposure to conflict affected household-level access to cash transfer programmes in the aftermath of the massive 2010 floods in Pakistan. Using […]
Constraining the Samurai: Rebellion and Taxation in Early Modern Japan
Christopher Paik, Abbey Steele, Seiki Tanaka
War is central to state formation, in part because it precipitates new and higher taxes. But what happens in the absence of war? In this […]
Climate Change, Conflict, and Children
This paper reviews the evidence linking climate variability to conflict, broadly defined, and the subsequent short and long-term implications of children’s exposure to conflict. Evidence […]
Child Mortality and the War on Terror: Afghanistan from 2007 to 2010
To estimate the impact of armed conflict on child mortality, I use annual variations in violence across provinces in Afghanistan to identify children more affected […]
State and Development: A Historical Study of Europe from 0 AD to 2000 AD
Christopher Paik, S.P. Harish
State presence and longevity have long been associated with growth and development, and yet analyzing their relationship remains challenging as both the length of state […]
Inequality, Distributive Beliefs and Protests: A Recent Story from Latin America
Patricia Justino, Bruno Martorano
This paper analyses the role of perceptions of inequality and distributive beliefs in motivating people to engage in protests. The paper focuses on the case […]
Liberation Technology: Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and […]
The long-term impact of war on health
Michael George Palmer, Cuong Nguyen Sophie Mitra Daniel Mont Nora Groce
The toll of warfare is often assessed in the short run and in terms of mortality. Other aspects of health have received limited attention, especially […]
Information and Communication Technologies, Wartime Informing, and Insurgent Violence
In this piece, I explore the relationship between wartime informing by civilians, information and communication technologies, and the production of violence by insurgents. Using newly […]
Take what you can: property rights, contestability and conflict
Thiemo Fetzer, Samuel Marden
Weak property rights are strongly associated with underdevelopment, low state capacity and civil conflict. In economic models of conflict, outbreaks of violence require two things: […]