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 […]
Winners and Losers Among a Refugee-Hosting Population
Jean-Francois Maystadt, Philip Verwimp
Every year, thousands of refugees are forced to leave their countries of origin and are hosted by their neighboring countries. However, very little is known […]
The Human Capital Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from Guatemala
Rubiana Chamarbagwala Hilcías E. Morán
We combine data from the 2002 National Population Census and the distribution of the number of victims and human rights violations across 22 departments to […]
Rebel Recruitment in a Coffee Exporting Economy
Eleonora Nillesen, Philip Verwimp
Grievance and reduced opportunity costs are two popular ideas within the civil war literature to explain participation in violent rebellion. We test both hypotheses at […]
On War and Schooling Attainment: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The subject of civil war has received significant attention in recent years, due to numerous episodes of intrastate armed conflict around the world. However, more […]
Military Empowerment and Civilian Targeting in Civil War
Civilians constitute a large share of casualties in civil wars across the world. They are targeted to create fear and punish allegiance with the enemy. […]
The war in Iraq initiated in March 2003 triggered a wave of violence and turmoil in the country, exposing households to insecurity and to instability […]
Damien de Walque, Philip Verwimp
There is an extensive literature on violent conflicts such as the 1994 Rwandan genocide, but few papers examine the profiles of victims and perpetrators, or […]
The War on Illegal Drug Production and Trafficking: An Economic Evaluation of Plan Colombia
Daniel Mejía Pascual Restrepo
This paper provides a thorough economic evaluation of the anti-drug policies implemented in Colombia between 2000 and 2006 under the so-called Plan Colombia. The paper […]
The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada
David A. Jaeger Esteban F. Klor M. Daniele Paserman, Sami Miaari
This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using public opinion poll micro data linked to data on fatalities, we […]
Rivalry and Revenge: Making Sense of Violence against Civilians in Conventional Civil Wars
Recent research on violence against civilians during wars has emphasized war- related factors over political ones. For example, factors such as control of territory or […]
Votes and Violence: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Nigeria
Paul Collier Pedro C. Vicente
Following the wave of democratization during the 1990s, elections are now common in low-income societies. However, these elections are frequently flawed. We investigate the Nigerian […]
Unbundling Institutions at the Micro Level: Conflict, Institutions and Income in Burundi
Erwin H. Bulte, Maarten Voors
We use a new dataset from Burundi to analyze the role of local institutions as determinants of income, distinguishing between three distinct dimensions of the […]
Consumption Growth, Household Splits and Civil War
Philip Verwimp, Tom Bundervoet
We analyse the effect of civil war on household welfare. Using Burundian panel data for the 1998-2007 period in which we re-interviewed original as well […]
Armed Conflict and Schooling: Evidence from the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
Damien de Walque, Richard Akresh
To examine the impact of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide on children’s schooling, the authors combine two cross-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The […]
Poverty and Violent Conflict: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Causes and Duration of Warfare
This paper argues that endogenous mechanisms linking processes of violent conflict and household poverty provide valuable micro foundations to the ongoing debate on the causes […]
Conflict displacement and labor market outcomes in post-war Bosnia & Herzegovina
The 1992/95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) drove about 1.3 Million people into displacement (UNHCR). This study uses a longitudinal data source to document […]
Does Indiscriminate Violence Incite Insurgent Attacks? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Does a state’s use of indiscriminate violence incite insurgent attacks? Nearly all existing theories and empirical studies conclude that such actions only fuel insurgencies by […]