Learning the hard way: The effect of violent conflict on student academic achievement
Michele Di Maio, Sami Miaari, Tilman Brück
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 […]
Luigi Moretti Costantino Pischedda, Stefano Costalli
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
Francesco Amodio, Michele Di Maio
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, Margarita Gáfaro, Patricia Justino
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
Shaun Larcom Mare Sarr, Tim Willems
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 […]
Political Violence, Drought and Child Malnutrition: Empirical Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India
Cathérine Müller, Jean-Pierre Tranchant, Patricia Justino
We analyse the combined effect of political violence and adverse climatic shocks on child nutrition. Instrumental variable models using longitudinal data from Andhra Pradesh, India, […]
Sexual Violence in Burundi: Victims, perpetrators, and the role of conflict
Nathalie E. J. Dijkman Catrien Bijleveld, Philip Verwimp
In this paper we shed light on sexual violence in Burundi in the aftermath of its civil war. By presenting the results of a mixed-method […]
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
Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora Jesse Willem d’Anjou, Santiago Tobón
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
Andrea Guariso, Marijke Verpoorten
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- […]