The Long Shadow of Conflict on Human Capital: Intergenerational Evidence from Peru
Alan Sanchez, Alessandra Hidalgo-Aréstegui, Catherine Porter, Saurabh Singhal
This paper estimates the intergenerational impacts of mothers’ exposure to the 1980-2000 Peruvian civil conflict on their children’s socio-emotional skills development. We combine longitudinal data, […]
Ghassan Baliki, Piero Ronzani, Sarah Fenzl, Tilman Brück, Wolfgang Stojetz
This paper studies the social protection of refugees during a pandemic. A pandemic adds to the many existing challenges refugees face, creating a dangerous polycrisis. […]
Aysegül Kayaoglu, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück
Climate change and violent conflict are defining challenges of our time. However, it is not yet understood how they interact in shaping human welfare and […]
Using Cross-Survey Imputation to Estimate Poverty for Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia
Carlos Santiago Guzman Gutierrez, Hai-Anh Dang, Ibrahima Sarr, Paolo Verme, Theresa Beltramo
Household consumption or income surveys do not typically cover refugee populations. In the rare cases where refugees are included, inconsistencies between different data sources could […]
Jordan Kyle, Katrina Kosec, Lucia Carrillo, Mulubrhan Amare
Using original survey data from three states in rural, southwestern Nigeria, this study examines the relationship between conflict intensity at various distances and the empowerment […]
Shocking social safety: Evidence from violence and drought in North-east Nigeria
Jeanne Pinay, Marco d'Errico, Piero Ronzani, Tilman Brück, Wolfgang Stojetz
Polycrises created by violent conflict and climate change are ubiquitous. Yet, the impacts of conflict and climatic shocks on human behavior and welfare have largely […]
Jeanne Pinay, Marco d'Errico, Piero Ronzani, Tilman Brück, Wolfgang Stojetz
This paper provides novel evidence on the impacts of agricultural support programs in acute emergency settings, by studying resilience in mostly rural areas in the […]
Onur Altındağ, Rim Achour, Stephen O’Connell
We examine how allocating a fixed social assistance budget across localities using different prioritization rules affects both beneficiary selection and program effectiveness. By simulating each […]
The Backlash Effect of State Coercion: Protest Resilience Under Costly and Targeted Repression
The relationship between state repression and protests is complex, as repression can deter or incite protests and escalate to violence. Additionally, it remains unclear which […]
Areas with violence problems have traditionally been considered the origin of migration flows but not their destination. We propose that the effect of violence on […]
You’re not like us! Ethnic discrimination and national belonging in Nigeria
This study examined the effect of ethnic discrimination on Nigerians’ sense of national identification relative to ethnic identification. The regression results revealed that the experience […]
The impacts of armed conflict on human development: a review of the literature
Alexa Timlick, Anneli Eriksson, Ashok Swain, Carl Henrik Knutsen, Christopher Rauh, Debarati Guha-Sapir, Ghassan Baliki, Hanne Fjelde, Hannes Mueller, Håvard Hegre, Ida Rudolfsen, Johan von Schreeb, Jonathan Hall, Maxine R. Leis, Nina von Uexkull, Paola Vesco, Phaidon T. B. Vassiliou, Stefan Döring, Tilman Brück
The detrimental impacts of wars on human development are well documented across research domains, from public health to micro-economics. However, these impacts are studied in […]
The Lives and Livelihoods of the Displaced in Sudan: Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees
Caroline Krafft, Jackline Wahba, Ragui Assaad
As of 2022, Sudan was home to 1.1 million refugees and 3.7 million internally displaced persons(IDPs), along with a substantial population that had previously experienced […]
Who Hosts? The Correlates of Hosting the Internally Displaced
Leonid Peisakhin, Nik Stoop, Peter van der Windt
Tens of millions of individuals are displaced due to violence, and most are hosted by other households in their home countries. We ask what motivates […]
Inverted “U” of fear: The paradox of conflict exposure and expected victimization in Kaduna, Nigeria
Using novel survey data collected from the Northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, this study examines the effect of exposure to violent conflict on people’s expectation […]
Alia Aghajanian, Arden Finn, Diego Zardetto, Jessica M. Anderson, Maen Salhab, Maria Boettche, Nadine Stammel, Piero Ronzani, Sarah Fenzl, Tilman Brück, Wolfgang Stojetz
Mental health risks are high in conflict settings, but mental health research mostly focuses on non-conflict settings. Survey data from active conflict settings often suffer […]
Carlo Azzarri, Erdgin Mane, Gianluigi Nico, Piero Ronzani, Tilman Brück, Wolfgang Stojetz
This paper provides empirical microlevel evidence on the gendered impacts of armed conflict on economic activity in agriculture and other sectors, combining large-N sex-disaggregated survey […]
Gender and migration aspirations in Nigeria: A comparative study of the states of Edo and Kaduna
This study examined the effect of gender on migration aspirations in the states of Kaduna and Edo, which are in Nigeria’s Northern and Southern Regions […]
Suffering and smiling: What determines happiness among Nigerians?
Using the Wave 7 World Values Survey (WVS) dataset, this study examined the determinants of happiness among Nigerians with a focus on exposure to violent […]
Introducing the Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2022
Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad, Ruby Cheung
This paper describes the new Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey (SLMPS) 2022, the first nationally representative survey in Sudan in almost a decade. The paper […]