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. […]
Civil War and the Welfare of Extended Households: Evidence from Longitudinal Data from Burundi
Philip Verwimp, Tom Bundervoet,
We analyse the effect of violence and rebellion on the evolution of household welfare. We collected new panel data for Burundi (1999-2007) in which we […]
Ana María Ibáñez, Valentina Calderón
This paper studies the labor market effects of migration-related supply shocks. We exploit forced migration caused by the Colombian conflict as a natural experiment to […]
Armed Conflict Exposure, Human Capital Investments and Child Labor: Evidence from Colombia
Catherine Rodriguez Orgales, Fabio Sánchez,
This paper estimates the effect that exposure to armed conflict has on school drop-out and labor decisions of Colombian children between the ages of six […]
This paper examines whether terrorism is an effective tool to achieve political goals. By exploiting variation in terror attacks over time and across locations in […]
The Marriage Market and Tajik Armed Conflict
This paper explores the relationship between the 1992-1998 armed conflict in Tajikistan, sex ratios and the age at first marriage for women. The findings suggest […]
The Consequences of Forced Displacement in Northern Uganda
Over 21 million people are currently forced to live in internally displaced person camps around the world, the majority already from low income areas. The […]
Violence and the Changing Ethnic Map: The Endogeneity of Territory and Conflict in Bosnia
This paper addresses the endogeneity of ethnic settlement patterns and conflict, that is, how settlement patterns affect conflict, and how conflict in turn changes the […]
Women and Girls at War: “Wives”, Mothers, and Fighters in the Lord’s Resistance Army
Chris Blattman, Jeannie Annan Dyan Mazurana Khristopher Carlson
Data from Uganda challenge conventional notions about the role of females during and after war. Women and girls recruited by the LRA play active roles […]
Children of War: The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children
During World War II, more than half a million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying about one-third of the […]
The Impact of Armed Civil Conflict on Household Welfare and Policy Responses
This paper offers a framework for analysing the effects of armed conflicts on households and the ways in which households in turn respond to and […]