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
Jorge M. Agüero, Muhammad Farhan Majid
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
Egor Lazarev, Vera Mironova
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
Devorah Manekin Dan Miodownik, Guy Grossman
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 […]
Asha Abdel Rahim Dany Jaimovich Aleksi Ylönen
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
Andrew L. Dabalen, Saumik Paul
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
Andrew Tedesco Alexandra Avdeenko, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp, Tilman Brück
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 […]
The Legacy of Conflict: Regional Deprivation and School Performance in Northern Ireland
Maren Michaelsen, Neil Ferguson
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, Juan Carlos Muñoz Mora, Philip Verwimp
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
Jean-Francois Maystadt, Liangzhi You, Margherita Calderone
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
Liliana Bernal Franco Claudia Navas Caputo
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 […]