The Legacy of Conflict: Regional Deprivation and School Performance in Northern Ireland
Neil Ferguson, Maren Michaelsen,
The relationship between deprivation and educational outcomes has been the subject of a long-running and deep debate in the economic literature. Recent discussions have focused […]
Ana María Ibáñez, Philip Verwimp, Juan Carlos Muñoz Mora
This paper explores the importance of the risk of violence on the decision making of rural households, using a unique panel data set for Colombian […]
Local Warming and Violent Conflict in North and South Sudan
Margherita Calderone, Jean-Francois Maystadt, Liangzhi You
Weather shocks and natural disasters, it has been argued, represent a major threat to national and international security. Our paper contributes to the emerging micro-level […]
Urban violence and humanitarian action in Medellin
Colombia has long experienced acute forms of political violence in and at the periphery of its major cities. Humanitarian agencies have also for decades protected […]
Revisiting Haiti’s Gangs and Organized Violence
Though a preoccupation with organized violence has dominated much of the discourse on politics and development in Haiti, little research exists on Haiti’s urban gangs […]
The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
Dominic Rohner, Francesco Caselli Massimo Morelli
We establish a theoretical as well as empirical framework to assess the role of resource endowments and their geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main […]
Buying Peace: The Mirage of Demobilizing Rebels
Philip Verwimp, Olivia D’Aoust Olivier Sterck
In 2009, hostilities were brought to an end in Burundi when the FNL rebel group laid down weapons. In exchange for peace, ex-rebels benefited from […]
Trusting the Enemy: Confidence in the state among ex-combatants
War-torn societies are often racked with generalized distrust, both among citizens and between citizens and the state. Even long after conflict ends, former combatants who […]
Gender-Differential Effects of Conflict on Education: The Case of the 1981-1993 Punjab Insurgency
Prakarsh Singh, Olga Shemyakina,
This study explores the long-run effect of the 1981-1993 Punjab Insurgency on the educational attainment of adults who were between ages 6-16 years at the […]
Evaluating programmes in conflict-affected areas
Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Nina Wald,
We provide an overview over the concepts, pitfalls and challenges involved in conducting scientifically sound impact evaluations and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in conflict-affected and […]
The Impact of Conflict on Education Attainment and Enrollment in Colombia: lessons from recent IDPs
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, Kate Wharton
Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict have made Colombia home to over 3 million Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), the world’s largest population. The effect […]
What explains why certain individuals participate in episodes of collective violence and others not? Differential selection into riots, communal violence, and ethnic massacres has often […]
The last few years have witnessed an important shift in international policy focus to a growing consensus that development and poverty reduction efforts cannot be […]
Micro-level dynamics of conflict, violence and development: A new analytical framework
Patricia Justino, Tilman Brück, Philip Verwimp,
Violent conflict is arguably one of the most important challenges facing the world today. The incidence of international and civil wars has decreased in recent […]
The Economic Consequences of Forced Displacement
Currently, nearly 44 million people around the world are forcibly displaced. This displacement is due to a number of factors, including weather shocks in New […]
This paper attempts to examine the broad theoretical and empirical literature on how poor households respond to shocks to their incomes and livelihoods brought upon […]
Nathan Fiala, Chris Blattman, Sebastián Martínez
Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty reduce the risk of social instability? We experimentally […]
Conflict is either caused by, or brings about, drastic changes in the underlying social relationships between members of a community involved in the conflict. The […]
Institutions, Mobilization and Rebellion in Post-Colonial Societies
Jean-Pierre Tranchant, Jean-Louis Arcand
We revisit the simultaneous equations model of rebellion, mobilization, grievances and repression proposed by Gurr and Moore (1997). Our main contribution is to clarify and […]
Violent conflict affects the lives, livelihoods and health of almost 1.5 billion people in the world (World Bank 2011). The number of armed conflicts has […]