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 […]
Learning How (Not) to Fire a Gun: Combatant Training and Civilian Victimization
Ben Oppenheim, Juan F. Vargas, Michael Weintraub,
What is the relationship between the type of training combatants receive upon recruitment into an armed group and their propensity to abuse civilians in civil […]
The Cost of Fear: The Welfare Effects of the Risk of Violence in Northern Uganda
The micro-conflict literature focuses almost exclusively on direct exposure to violence and post-conflict outcomes. By focusing only on directly exposed households, the literature ignores the […]
International Conventions and Non-State Actors: Selection, Signaling, and Reputation Effects
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Simon Hug Livia Isabella Schubiger Julian Wucherpfennig
Non-state actors (NSAs) play an important role in violent conflicts, but unlike state actors they cannot (be forced to) sign international conventions tying their hands. […]
Organizational Weapons: Explaining Cohesion in the Military
Cohesion is defined as the creation and maintenance of cooperative effort towardsthe attainment of the organization’s goals. This paper argues that existing theories of cohesion in […]
Labour Market, Education and Armed Conflict in Tajikistan
Shortly following its independence in 1991, Tajikistan suffered a violent civil war. This study explores the effect of this conflict on education and labour market […]
Between 1996 and 2006, Nepal experienced violent civil conflict as a consequence of a Maoist insurgency, which many argue also brought about an increase in […]