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
Olga Shemyakina, Patricia Justino
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, Nina Wald, Tilman Brück
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
Alexandra Avdeenko, Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp, Tilman Brück
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
Cagatay Bircan Marc Vothknecht, Tilman Brück
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
Asaf Zussman Noam Zussman, Sami Miaari
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
Bernd Beber, Chris Blattman
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
Eleonora Nillesen, Erwin Bulte Robert Lensink Daan van Soest, Maarten Voors, Philip Verwimp
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 […]
Eric D. Gould Esteban F. Klor
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 […]