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 […]
Adverse rainfall shocks and civil war: Myth or reality?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Impact of Internal Displacement on Destination Communities: Evidence from the Colombian Conflict
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, […]
Violence and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from Mexican Drug War
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This study estimates the impact of Kenya’s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand […]
Return migration and economic outcomes in the conflict context
We explore differences in economic outcomes between return migrant households and non-migrant households using panel data from Burundi, a country which experienced large scale conflict-led […]
Masked Development: Exploring the Hidden Benefits of the Zapatista Conflict
In 1994, the Zapatistas took up arms claiming for indigenous people rights in Chiapas, Mexico. After 12 days of civil war, the government called for […]
The contribution looks at the gap in labour market and school outcomes between first and second generation migrants and non-migrants in European countries. It correlates […]
This paper investigates the effects of youth unemployment on political instability in developing countries through three hypotheses. Firstly, youth unemployment has significant effects on risk […]
The Global Economic Burden of Violent Conflict
Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Olaf J. de Groot
Calculating the impact of different societal challenges, such as climate change, HIV/AIDS or cancer, uncovers the scale, distribution and structure of their economic burdens. Since […]
The Long-Term Effects of Conflict on Welfare: Evidence from Burundi
Philip Verwimp, Marion Mercier Rama Lionel Ngenzebuke
We investigate the relationship between exposure to conflict and poverty dynamics over time, using original three-waves panel data for Burundi which tracked individuals and reported […]
Is Conflict Contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Benjamin Crost, Joseph H. Felter
The fact that conflicts tend to cluster in space is well documented. It remains unclear, however, whether this clustering is a result of contagion or […]
Income Inequality and Violent Crime: Evidence from Mexico’s Drug War
Evidence of a causal effect of inequality on crime is scarce in developing countries. This paper estimates the effect in a unique context: Mexico’s Drug […]
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 […]
On the Origins of States: Stationary Bandits and Taxation in Eastern Congo
When do states arise? When do they fail to arise? This question has generated scholarship across all social sciences. A dominant view is that states […]