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 […]
Political Violence, Drought and Child Malnutrition: Empirical Evidence from Andhra Pradesh, India
Jean-Pierre Tranchant, Patricia Justino, Cathérine Müller,
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
Philip Verwimp, Nathalie E. J. Dijkman Catrien Bijleveld
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
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 […]