Can Rigorous Impact Evaluations Improve Humanitarian Assistance?
Yashodhan Ghorpade, Tilman Brück, Jyotsna Puri Anastasia Aladysheva Vegard Iversen
Abstract: Despite the widespread occurrence of humanitarian emergencies such as epidemics, earthquakes, droughts, floods and violent conflict and despite the significant financial resources devoted to […]
Do Criminally Accused Politicians Affect Economic Outcomes? Evidence from India
Nishith Prakash, Marc Rockmore, Yogesh Uppal
The recent increase in the number of criminally accused politicians elected to state assemblies has caused much furor in India. Despite the potentially important consequences […]
“Face the bullet, spare the rod?” Evidence from the aftermath of the Shining Path Insurgency
Prakarsh Singh, Alvaro Morales
We investigate whether violence occurring outside the confines of a home can alter intrahousehold violence inter-generationally. This paper is the first to explore whether exposure […]
The determinants of low-intensity intergroup violence. The case of Northern Ireland
Laia Balcells, Lesley-Ann Daniels Abel Escribà-Folch
What accounts for low-intensity intergroup violence? In this paper, we explore the micro-level determinants of low-intensity sectarian violence in Northern Ireland, which has marked the […]
Does social action fund promote schooling in conflict affected countries? Mixed evidence from Angola
Although recent evidence shows detrimental effects of armed conflict on educational attainment, coupled with the fact that 50% of children out of school live in […]
The Perception of Lethal Risks – Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Tilman Brück, Manuel Schubert
We run a novel experiment to explore the relationship between the perception of real-life risks and the demand for risk reduction. Subjects play a series […]
The Effect of Civil Conflict on Child Abuse: Evidence from Peru
Prakarsh Singh, Alvaro Morales
In this paper, we investigate whether violence occurring outside the confines of a home can alter intrahousehold violence. Using the Peruvian civil conflict that occurred […]
Trade, employment and conflict: Evidence from the Second Intifada
Massimiliano Calì, Sami Miaari,
Do trade shocks affect conflict? The evidence on this question has so far focused mainly on commodity price shocks. This paper moves beyond this focus […]
Learning the hard way: The effect of violent conflict on student academic achievement
Tilman Brück, Michele Di Maio, Sami Miaari,
We study the effect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the probability to pass the final high-school exam for Palestinian students in the West Bank during […]
Stefano Costalli, Luigi Moretti Costantino Pischedda
There is a consensus that civil wars entail enormous economic costs, but we lack reliable estimates, due to the endogenous relationship between violence and socio-economic […]
Solidarity with a sharp edge: Communal conflict and local collective action in rural Nigeria
This paper provides new insights into the link between the experience of vio- lent conflict and local collective action. I use the temporal and geographical […]
Export Taxes and Consumption: A ‘Natural Experiment’ from Côte d’Ivoire
I exploit the emergence of two de facto states in Côte d’Ivoire during the 2002- 2007 political crisis to examine the effects of an export […]
Their Suffering, Our Burden? How Congolese Refugees Affect the Ugandan Population
The situation of refugees all over the world gets increasingly protracted, as civil wars in their home countries are not resolved. Especially in developing countries, […]
Forced Displacement and Early Childhood Nutritional Development in Colombia
This document attempts to determine the impact of forced displacement on early childhood nutritional development. I use two identification strategies in order to address the […]
Making Do with What You Have: Conflict, Firm Performance and Input Misallocation in Palestine
Michele Di Maio, Francesco Amodio
This paper investigates the effect of conflict on firms’ output value and input misallocation in the context of Palestine during the Second Intifada. Using a […]
Local Institutions and Armed Group Presence in Colombia
Ana María Ibáñez, Patricia Justino, Margarita Gáfaro
This paper investigates the causal impact of non-state armed groups on local institutions during the armed conflict in Colombia, and tests competing theoretical mechanisms that […]
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political […]
Dictators Walking the Mogadishu Line: How Men Become Monsters and Monsters Become Men
Tim Willems, Shaun Larcom Mare Sarr
History offers many examples of dictators who worsened their behavior significantly over time (like Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe), while there are also cases of dictators who […]
Civil Conflict, Sex Ratio and Intimate Partner Violence in Rwanda
This paper examines the long-term impact of civil conflict on intimate partnerviolence and women’s decision-making power using post-genocide data from Rwanda. Household survey data collected […]
Benjamin Crost, Joseph H. Felter Patrick B. Johnston
Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs are an increasingly popular tool for reducing poverty in conflict-affected areas. Despite their growing popularity, there is limited evidence on […]