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 […]
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 […]