Governance Interventions in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Countries
This paper examines the effect of conflict on agricultural production of small farmers. First, an inter-temporal model of agricultural production is developed in which the […]
War and Social Attitudes: Revisiting Consensus Views
Travers Barclay Child, Elena Nikolova
We study the long-run effects of conflict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our setting. Much of earlier […]
Food Security, Peacebuilding and Gender Equality: Conceptual Framework and Future Directions
The main objective of this study is to generate knowledge and evidence-based, meaningful, and actionable recommendations to governments and other stakeholders, particularly international organizations and […]
Welfare Spending and Political Conflict
Patricia Justino, Bruno Martorano
We study an age-old question in political economy: does government spending on welfare ensure peace? This question was at the heart of the European Welfare […]
Domestic Violence and Childhood Exposure to Armed Conflict: Attitudes and Experiences
Giulia La Mattina, Olga Shemyakina,
We examine the effect of exposure to armed conflict in childhood and youth on women and men’s attitudes toward domestic violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. More […]
First and Second Generation Impacts of the Biafran War
Richard Akresh, Marinella Leone, Sonia Bhalotra Una Osili
We analyze long-term impacts of the 1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War, providing the first evidence of intergenerational impacts. Women exposed to the war in their growing […]
Hunger Games: Food Security and Strategic Preemptive Conflict
A growing number of studies draw linkages between violent conflict and food scarcities. Yet, evidence suggests that at the subnational level conflict is likely to […]
Food, Drought and Conflict Evidence from a Case Study on Somalia
This paper aims at disentangling the mutual link between conflict, drought and food security in Somalia. The analysis is conducted using various indicators for food […]
Cemal Eren Arbatli, Gunes Gokmen
We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the […]
Security, Trade, and Political Violence
Michele Di Maio, Francesco Amodio Leonardo Baccini
To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly […]
The Reach of Radio: Ending Civil Conflict through Rebel Demobilization
Joseph Flavian Gomes, Alex Armand Paul Atwell
This paper examines the role of FM radio in mitigating and ending violent conflict. We collect original data on radio broadcasts encouraging defections during the […]
Conflict in Ethiopia: The Impact of Precipitation and Its Transmission Mechanism
In this paper we examine the impact of precipitation variations on the probability of conflict in Ethiopia using subnational data at 0.5×0.5 decimal degrees resolution […]
Childhood aspirations, occupational outcomes and exposure to violence: Evidence from Burundi
Philip Verwimp, Lionel Jeusette
Recent evidence points at the importance of childhood aspirations for our understanding of poverty and development. But how are these affected by the exposure to […]
Migration, Forced Displacement and Fertility during Civil War: A Survival Analysis
Philip Verwimp, Davide Osti Gudrun Østby
The civil war in Burundi (1993-2005) caused a mass flow of refugees into neighboring countries as well as a large number of internally dis- placed […]
Ana María Ibáñez, María Alejandra Arias Andrés Zambrano
This paper examines the effect of conflict on agricultural production of small farmers. First, an inter-temporal model of agricultural production is developed in which the […]
We Don’t Need No Education: Reconstruction and Conflict across Afghanistan
Field interviews conducted by the author in Afghanistan suggest current theories linking conflict to development do not adequately account for ideological drivers of resistance. We […]
A Model of Protests, Revolution, and Information
A revolt or protest succeeds only if sufficient people participate. We study how potential participants’ ability to coordinate is affected by their information. We distinguish […]
The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa
Eoin F. McGuirk, Marshall Burke
We study the impact of plausibly exogenous global food price shocks on local violence across the African continent. In food-producing areas, higher food prices reduce […]
Communal violence in the Horn of Africa following the 1998 El Niño
This study exploits a shift in Spring precipitation patterns in the Horn of Africa following the 1998 El Niño to examine the effect of climate […]
Short term effects of drought on communal conflict in Nigeria
Despite the surge in quantitative research examining the link between climate variability and conflict, a lot of uncertainty exists concerning whether there is a link. […]