Short- and Long-Term Impact of Violence on Education: The Case of Timor Leste
Patricia Justino, Marinella Leone, Paola Salardi,
This paper analyzes the impact of the wave of violence that occurred in Timor Leste in 1999 on education outcomes. We examine the short-term impact […]
Violent Conflict and Human Capital Accumulation
This paper reviews and discusses available empirical research on the impact of violent conflict on the level and access to education of civilian and combatant […]
Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Tony Muhumuza,
We study the effect of living in an internally displaced people’s (IDP) camp oneconomic activity choices in post war northern Uganda. As the decision to […]
Malnutrition, Subsequent Risk of Mortality and Civil War in Burundi
The paper investigates the effect of child malnutrition on the risk of mortality in Burundi, a very poor country heavily affected by civil war. We […]
Electing Displacement: Political Cleansing in Apartadó, Colombia
This article highlights a nefarious effect of elections during civil wars by demonstrating that they can facilitate the displacement of civilians. This occurs through two […]
War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust and Conflict
Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig Fabrizio Zilibottix
We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is inhabited by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade […]
The 1990-1992 Massacres in Rwanda: A Case of Spatial and Social Engineering?
Until now, two main sets of arguments have dominated the debate on the nature of the massacres that were perpetrated in Rwanda before the 1994 […]
Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China
Does production technology adoption affect conflict? This paper studies this question with yearly historical data on weather, peasant revolts and the diffusion of sweet potatoes […]
Sovereign Risk and Armed Conflict: An Event-study for Colombia
Juan F. Vargas, Andrés Castañeda
We study the relationship between some of the most important recent events of the Colombian armed conflict and the foreign perception of sovereign risk, as […]
The Persistent Colombian Conflict: Subnational Analysis of the Duration of Violence
The growing empirical literature on the analysis of civil war has recently included the study of conflict duration at the cross-country level. This paper presents, […]
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 […]