Armed Group Repertoires and Recollection in Survey Research
Studies of civil wars often allude to the potential for problems of memory to mar observational data collected through surveys. The validity of survey respondents’recollections is […]
Civilian Resistance to Rebel Governance
How can unarmed civilians defy armed insurgent or paramilitary groups that attempt to rule them? All rulers awaken opposition and rebel rulers are not the […]
Wartime Institutions: A Research Agenda
Understanding the choices of civilians and combatants is crucial to our research on civil war and post-conflict reconstruction. We want to know, for example, why […]
Does land titling matter? The role of land property rights in the war on illicit crops in Colombia
Santiago Tobón, Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora Jesse Willem d’Anjou
This paper analyzes the role of formalization of land property rights in the war against illicit crops in Colombia. We argue that as a consequence […]
Extortion with Protection: Understanding the effect of rebel taxation on civilian welfare in Burundi
Philip Verwimp, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler
Using a panel dataset from Burundi where information on protection payments during the 10 year civil war were collected, we test the relationship between payments, […]
Armed conflict and schooling in Rwanda: Digging deeper
Marijke Verpoorten, Andrea Guariso
We study how armed conflicts affected educational outcomes in Rwanda during the nineties, relying on two waves of population census data and on a difference-in- […]
A medical literature that provides biological pathways from maternal stress to adverse birth outcomes, coupled with a growing consensus that birth characteristics are predictive of […]
Conflict and the Formation of Political Beliefs in Africa
Achyuta Adhvaryu, James Fensk
We test whether living through conflict in childhood changes political beliefs and engagement. We combine data on the location and intensity of conflicts since 1945 […]
War and the Destruction of Human Capital
Muhammad Farhan Majid, Jorge M. Agüero
The identification of the effect of wars on human capital tends to focus on the population of school age children at the time of the […]
Minority Status and Investment: Evidence from Natural and Lab Experiments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Vera Mironova, Egor Lazarev
This study explores how minority status influences individual decisions about investment in a post-conflict society. The study is based on multiple sources of evidence from […]
The Political Legacies of Combat: Attitudes towards war and peace amongst Israeli ex-combatants
Guy Grossman, Devorah Manekin Dan Miodownik
Does combat experience foster hardliner approaches to conflict, diminishing the likelihood of reconciliation? We exploit the assignment of health rankings determining combat eligibility in the […]
Local Economic Conditions and Participation in the Rwandan Genocide
This paper uses new data on participation to examine how local economic conditions shaped within-country variation in willingness to participate in violentactivities during the Rwandan genocide. It discusses and […]
During the 1980s, the Peruvian society was deeply and negatively affected by two significant issues: In the first place, the economic crisis that ended in […]
Election Fraud and Post-Election Conflict: Evidence from the Philippines
Benjamin Crost, Joseph H. Felter Hani Mansour Daniel I. Rees
Previous studies have documented a positive association between election fraud and the intensity of civil conflict. It is not clear, however, whether this association is […]
After the end of a civil war that lasted for more than two decades, in 2005 hundreds of thousands of displaced people started returning to […]
Effect of Conflict on Dietary Energy Supply: Evidence from Cote d’Ivoire
Saumik Paul, Andrew L. Dabalen
In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côted’Ivoire. To identify the true impact of conflict, we use (1) […]
Political Mobilization in Tibet
This paper aims to investigate the root of ongoing conflict between China and Tibetan regions for independence. By using the data collected from waves of […]
The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
Mevlude Akubulut, Mutlu Yuksel
This paper examines the long-term direct and spillover effects of large-scale human capital loss caused by the persecution of Jewish professionals in Nazi Germany. Using […]
Measuring Conflict Exposure in Micro-Level Surveys
Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp, Andrew Tedesco Alexandra Avdeenko
Violent conflict is a key obstacle to overall economic development and specifically to human development. Conflicts vary greatly in their nature – hence the impacts of conflicts […]
Displacement and Education of the Next Generation: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
In this paper, I study how displacement of parents during a violent conflict affects investment in their children’s’ education years later. Using ethnic division during the […]