Who Does What in a Household after Genocide? Evidence from Rwanda
This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of […]
Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
Richard Akresh, Leonardo Lucchetti Harsha Thirumurthy
This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact […]
Conflict Experiences and Expectations on Recovery: Survey Evidence from Northern Uganda
Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Tony Muhumuza,
We analyse the role of mass violent conflict in influencing individual expectations. We hypothesise that individuals are likely to report negative expectations if they were […]
Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events
Tilman Brück, Fernanda Llussá José Tavares
We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – […]
Conflict, Ideology and Foreign Aid
Adama Bah, Jean-Louis Arcand Julien Labonne
In this paper, we present a rent-seeking model of conflict, which highlights the role of ideology in determining whether the government or the rebels take […]
Weapons, Violence and Personal Security in Cape Town
Given the high levels of crime and violence in South Africa, there may be a temptation for citizens to arm themselves for protection. Using quantitative […]
Empowering IDP with SMS: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Bogotá
Juan F. Vargas, Mariana Blanco
We carried out a randomized controlled trial in Bogotá, the recipient of Colombia’s highest number of internally displaced people (IDP), to assess whether the use […]
Remittances and Labor Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan
Patricia Justino, Olga Shemyakina,
This paper analyzes the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. We find that on average men and […]
Self-Employment and Conflict in Colombia
Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Nina Wald,
Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict which influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behaviour on labour markets. This study focuses […]
The main objective of this paper is to systematically identify potential channels of transmission linking civil war and poverty that may lead to the persistence […]
Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War
Dominic Rohner, Massimo Morelli
We examine how natural resource location, rent sharing and fighting capacities of different groups matter for ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due […]
Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
Tilman Brück, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp, Alexandra Avdeenko
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households […]
Dominic Rohner, Joan Esteban Massimo Morelli
Since World War II there have been about fifty episodes of large-scale mass killings of civilians and massive forced displacements. They were usually meticulously planned […]
Violent Conflict and Inequality
Tilman Brück, Cagatay Bircan Marc Vothknecht
This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use […]
Ethnic Conflict and Job Seperations
Sami Miaari, Asaf Zussman Noam Zussman
We study the effect of the second Intifada, a violent conflict between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors which erupted in September 2000, and the ensuing […]
A Phoenix in Flames? Portfolio Choice and Violence in Civil War in Rural Burundi
Eleonora Nillesen, Philip Verwimp,
This paper challenges the idea that farmers revert to subsistence farming when confronted with violence from civil war. While there is an emerging macroeconomic consensus […]
Conflict, Economic Shock and Child Labour in Palestine
Michele Di Maio, Tushar K. Nandi
This paper studies the impact of Palestine-Israel conflict on child labour in Palestine. The conflict has resulted in massive job loss of Palestinian workers in […]
Populations displaced as a result of mass violent conflict have become one of the most pressing humanitarian concerns of the last decades. They have also […]
The Logic of Child Soldiering and Coercion
Chris Blattman, Bernd Beber
Why do armed groups recruit large numbers of children as fighters, often coercively? The inter-national community has tried to curb these crimes by shaming and […]
Does Conflict affect Preferences? Results from Field Experiments in Burundi
Maarten Voors, Eleonora Nillesen, Philip Verwimp, Erwin Bulte Robert Lensink Daan van Soest
We use experimental data from 35 randomly selected communities in Burundi to examine the impact of exposure to conflict on social-, risk- and time preferences. […]