The labour market impact of mobility restrictions: Evidence from the West Bank
Massimiliano Calì, Sami Miaari,
Using data on Israeli closure in the Palestinian West Bank, we provide new evidence on the labour market effects of conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. We […]
Violent Conflict and Gender Inequality: An Overview
Philip Verwimp, Mayra Buvinic Monica Das Gupta Ursula Casabonne
Violent conflict, a pervasive feature of the recent global landscape, has lasting impacts on human capital, and these impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death and […]
Chris Blattman, Alexandra Hartman Robert Blair
How to promote local order and property rights under weak rule of law? States commonly use education campaigns to influence citizen behavior and, ultimately, change […]
Naxalite Insurgency and the Economic Benefits of a Unique Robust Security Response
Saurabh Singhal, Rahul Nilakantan
Using the synthetic control method of analysis, we provide the first measurements of the direct economic benefits of a unique robust security response to an […]
Households amidst urban riots: The economic consequences of civil violence in India
Jaideep Gupte, Patricia Justino, Jean-Pierre Tranchant,
The objective of this paper is to uncover the determinants of riot victimization in India. The analysis is based on a unique survey collected by […]
Shared Societies and Armed Conflicts: Costs, Inequality and the Benefits of Peace
This chapter examines how the relationship between economic exclusion, inequality, conflict and violence shape the goal of establishing shared societies. The chapter discusses how this […]
Warfare, Political Identities, and Displacement in Spain and Colombia
This paper explores the causes of displacement during civil wars. Recent scholarship has shown that conventional civil wars – those in which forces are relatively balanced – and irregular […]
Returning Home after Civil War: Food security, nutrition and poverty among Burundese households
Philip Verwimp, Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora
Civil wars often force people to leave their homes. Displaced populations run higher risk in terms of disease, hunger and death, something that is well-documented. […]
For the first time in close to 100 years, India reports higher population growth in its urbanised areas than across its vast rural landscape. However, […]
Living Within Conflicts: Risk of Violence and Livelihood Portfolios
This paper provides a comprehensive view of household responses to insecurity by examining chances along the extensive and intensive margins of livelihoods during a conflict. […]
Estimating the Causal Effects of War on Education in Côte D’Ivoire
Saumik Paul, Andrew L. Dabalen
In this paper we estimate the causal effects of civil war on years of education in the context of a school-going age cohort who are […]
Armed Conflict and Children’s Health – Exploring new directions: The case of Kashmir
The exposure to violence in utero and early in life has adverse impacts on children’s age-adjusted height (z-scores). Using the experience of the Kashmir insurgency, […]
Causes of Civil War: Micro Level Evidence from Côte D’Ivoire
Saumik Paul, Andrew L. Dabalen Ephraim Kebede
A multiethnic country like Côte d’Ivoire, which was relatively stable until the late 1980s, has been mired in crisis in the last two decades and […]
Mental Health and Labour Supply: Evidence from Mexico’s Ongoing Violent Conflicts
In Mexico, conflicts between drug-trafficking organisations result in a high number of deaths and immense suffering among both victims and non-victims every year. Little scientific […]
Quantifying The Microeconomic Effects of War: How Much Can Panel Data Help?
Margarita Pivovarova, Eik Leong Swee,
The extensive coverage of household surveys in conflict regions in recent decades has fueled a growing literature on the microeconomic effects of war. Most researchers […]
Armed Conflict, Household Victimization, and Child Health in Côte D’Ivoire
Olga Shemyakina, Camelia Minoiu
We examine the effect of the 2002-2007 civil conflict in Côte d’Ivoire on children’s health status using household surveys collected before, during, and after the […]
War, Health, and Educational Attainment: A Panel of Children during Burundi’s Civil War
This article examines the impact of war-induced ill early childhood health on educational attainment in early adolescence. Using data on a small panel of children […]
War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
Richard Akresh, Marinella Leone, Sonia Bhalotra Una Osili
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo- dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the […]
Seeds of Distrust: Conflict in Uganda
Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig Fabrizio Zilibotti
We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, […]
From Vice to Virtue? Civil War and Social Capital in Uganda
Giacomo de Luca, Marijke Verpoorten,
We show that armed conflict affects social capital as measured by trust and associational membership. Using the case of Uganda and two rounds of nationally […]