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Can War Foster Cooperation?

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 […]

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Calamity, Conflict and Cash Transfers: How Violence Affects Access to Aid in Pakistan

Yashodhan Ghorpade, 

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 […]

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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 […]

221

Climate Change, Conflict, and Children

Richard Akresh, 

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 […]

220

Child Mortality and the War on Terror: Afghanistan from 2007 to 2010

Anton Parlow, 

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 […]

219

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Information and Communication Technologies, Wartime Informing, and Insurgent Violence

Andrew Shaver, 

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 […]

214

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: […]

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The Unintended Long-term Consequences of Mao’s Mass Send-Down Movement: Marriage, Social Network, and Happiness

This paper uses the China General Social Survey (CGSS) 2003 to evaluate the long-term consequences of a forced migration, the state’s “send-down” movement (shang shan […]

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Adverse rainfall shocks and civil war: Myth or reality?

Ricardo Maertens, 

News reports and policy makers frequently link African civil conflicts and wars to agricultural crises caused by droughts. However, empirical studies of the relationship between […]

211

Violence and political outcomes in Ukraine: Evidence from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk

In this paper, we study the effects of violence on political outcomes using a survey of respondents in Sloviansk and Kramatorsk – two cities that […]

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The Effect of Civilian Casualties on Wartime Informing: Evidence from the Iraq War

Andrew Shaver,  Jacob N. Shapiro

Scholars of civil war and insurgency have long posited that insurgent organizations and their state enemies incur costs for the collateral damage they cause. We […]

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The Impact of Internal Displacement on Destination Communities: Evidence from the Colombian Conflict

Juan S. Morales, 

More than ten percent of the population of Colombia has been forced to migrate due to civil war. This study employs an enclave IV strategy, […]

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Violence and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from Mexican Drug War

Muhammad Nasir, 

An emerging literature finds that early life exposure to conflict has important effects on subsequent physical and cognitive development. While this literature focuses on large-scale […]

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It’s no Spring Break in Cancun: The Effects of Exposure to Violence on Risk Preferences, Pro-Social Behavior and Mental Health

Muhammad Nasir,  Marc Rockmore,  Chih Ming Tan

Exposure to violence has been found to affect behavioral parameters, mental health and social interactions. The literature focuses on large scale political violence. The effects […]

206

Hard to forget: The long-lasting impact of war on mental health

This paper examines the impact of war trauma experienced during the 1992-1995 Bosnia and Herzegovina conflict on individual mental health. By using a medically-validated depression […]

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Local Government Proliferation, Diversity, and Conflict

A key feature of decentralization in developing countries has been the creation of new local governments. The implications of this process for violent conflict are […]