Agricultural Outputs and Conflict Displacement: Evidence from a Policy Intervention in Rwanda
In 1997 Rwanda introduced a re-settlement policy for refugees displaced during previous conflicts. We exploit geographic variation in the speed of implementation of this policy […]
Remittances in Fragile Settings: a Somali Case Study
Literature on conflict has largely overlooked migrants’ remittances, and literature on migrant’s remittances has largely avoided conflict settings. Using a micro- level approach, this paper […]
Who Joins Ethnic Militias? A Survey of the Oodua People’s Congress in South western Nigeria
The economic analysis of conflicts assigns a crucial role to the rebellion making process. However, the existing literature on this issue often rests on unsatisfactory […]
The Human Capital Cost of Landmine Contamination in Cambodia
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines production and use estimates that there are more than 80 billion landmines in the ground in more than 80 […]
Livestock, Activity Choices and Conflict: Evidence from Burundi
Standard economic risk theory postulates that in the absence of credit markets, wealthier households will engage in higher-risk, higher profit activities to generate income while […]
Ana María Ibáñez, Andrés Moya
Intra-state conflicts and forced displacement impose a heavy burden upon the civil population, and produce severe welfare losses. Using a household level data administered to […]
The Consequences of Child Soldiering
Chris Blattman, Jeannie Annan
Civil conflicts have afflicted a third of all nations and two thirds of Africa since 1991. In many cases, up to a third of male […]
When is Democracy an Equilibrium?: Theory and Evidence from Colombia’s La Violencia
Ragnar Torvik, Mario Chacón James A. Robinson
The conventional wisdom in political science is that for a democracy to be consolidated, all groups must have a chance to attain power. If they […]
In this paper, we evaluate absolute consumption poverty and inequality in rural and urban Burundi after more than 5 years of civil war. Using the […]
Civil War, Crop Failure, and the Health Status of Young Children
Richard Akresh, Philip Verwimp
Economic shocks at birth have lasting impacts on children’s health several years after the shock. We calculate height for age z-scores for children under age […]
On the Links between Violent Conflict and Chronic Poverty: How Much Do We Really Know?
A large proportion of the world population is affected by widespread violence and instability. The majority lives in poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin […]
Land is considered the most fundamental resource to the poor and is essential to generate income, accumulate wealth and transfer it between generations, and enabling […]
Poverty Dynamics, Violent Conflict and Convergence in Rwanda
Patricia Justino, Philip Verwimp
Civil war and genocide in the 1990-2000 period in Rwanda – a small, landlocked, densely populated country in Central Africa – have had differential economic […]
Counting the Deaths in Darfur: Estimating mortality from multiple survey data
Debarati Guha-Sapir, Olivier Degomme
The exact number of deaths in the Darfur region due to the conflict will probably never be known. However, most certainly, it is far too […]
Conflict, Decentralisation and Local Governance in Colombia, 1974-2004
Fabio Sánchez, María del Mar Palau
The Colombian armed conflict is one of the oldest in the world; it is only superseded in time by the Israeli-Palestinian and India-Pakistan conflicts, and […]
Refugee young people who are without their biological parents are often assumed to be among the most disempowered members of displaced populations. This paper interrogates […]
The Effect of Armed Conflict on Accumulation of Schooling: Results from Tajikistan
From 1992 to 1998 Tajikistan was embroiled in one of the most devastating civil conflicts in the Former Soviet Union region. To identify regional exposure […]
Civil War and Economic Sanctions: Analysis of Anthropometric Outcomes in Burundi
Tom Bundervoet, Philip Verwimp
This paper investigates the impact of the latest civil war and the subsequent economic embargo in Burundi on the health status of the Burundese children. […]
Collapse or Order? Questioning State Collapse in Africa
In the aftermath of 9/11, the problem of state ‘collapse’ and ‘failure’ appears again on the agenda as an important question of global security. Meanwhile, […]
Long Term Consequences Of Early Childhood Malnutrition
John Hoddinott, Harold Alderman Bill Kinsey
This paper examines the impact of preschool malnutrition on subsequent human capital formation in rural Zimbabwe using a maternal fixed effects – instrumental variables (MFE-IV) […]