How Peace Saves Lives: Evidence from Colombia
Mounu Prem, Juan F. Vargas, Sergio Perilla, and Miguel E. Purroy
The victimization of civilians and combatants during internal conflicts causes large socioeconomic costs. Unfortunately, it is not clear whether peace negotiations can significantly reduce this […]
Conflict Victimization and Civilian Obedience: Evidence from Colombia
In this study, I investigate how conflict victimization influences civilians’ likelihood of (dis)obeying armed actors, a behavioral tendency which I elicit through a lab-in-the field […]
Sending peace home?! The effect of political favoritism on conflict
Kerstin Unfried, Andreas Kammerlander
Bringing the model by Choi (2014) to a spatial context, we investigate and assess the link between political favoritism and internal conflict. In particular, we […]
(Dis)Trust in the Aftermath of Sexual Violence: Evidence from Sri Lanka
Alina Greiner, Maximilian Filsinger
Does exposure to sexual violence during conflict affect ethnic group trust post-war? Despite the prevalence of sexual violence, we know surprisingly little about its social […]
Hai-Anh Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh, & Paolo Verme
Hardly any evidence exists on the effects of mental illness on refugee labor outcomes. We offer the first study on this topic in the context […]
Hidden Costs of War: Evidence from Nepal’s Maoist Insurgency
This paper uses a unique longitudinal dataset to examine the costly behavioral changes adopted by agricultural households in response to the 1996–2006 Maoist insurgency in […]
Although the secessionist conflict in Nigeria’s Eastern Region has persisted for over two decades and become increasingly violent, no study has, to the best of […]
The incidence and intensity of violent conflict in Nigeria have been rising steadily since 2016. However, the states across the country are not equally affected. […]
This Is a Man’s World: Crime and Intra-Household Resource Allocation
Exposure to community violence is a pervasive development challenge. I study the effects of violent crime on intra-household resource allocation and bargaining power exploiting the […]
Conflict and Girl Child Marriage: Global Evidence
Caroline Krafft, Diana Jimena Arango, Amalia Hadas Rubin, and Jocelyn Kelly
Child marriage has lasting negative health, human capital, and welfare consequences. Conflictsettings are characterized by a number of complex changes that can potentially increase the […]
This paper examines the impact of mobile phone coverage on insurgent violence. In theory, access to coverage can lower violence by increasing the flow of […]
Terrorism and child mortality: Evidence from Africa
Max Schaub, Daniel Meierrieks
How does terrorism affect child mortality? We use geo-coded data on terrorism and highly spatially disaggregated data on child mortality to study the relationship between […]
Fighting Covid-19 amidst Civil Conflict: Micro-level evidence from Burkina Faso
Philip Verwimp, Mohammad H. Sepahvand
How does violent conflict affect the spread of Covid-19? In this paper we analyze how violent conflict influences the adoption of preventative measures and infection […]
Dominic Rohner, Andrea Berlanda, Matteo Cervallati, Elena Esposito, Dominic Rohner, Uwe Sunde
The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This paper closes this gap by evaluating the effect of […]
Integrated Militias Can Increase the Risk of Civil War Renewal
Ore Koren, Bumba Mukherjee
Research on civil war identified multiple reason for why some transitions to peace are more robust than others. However, scholars largely ignored a key determinant […]
Individual exposure to armed conflict and entrepreneurship
Arzu Kibris, Phillip Nelson
We study the individual level impacts of exposure to armed conflict on entrepreneurial activity. We introduce new data from a large-N field survey we conducted […]
Despite the extensive literature on civil conflict, little is known about the medium- and long-term effects of electoral violence on young children and adolescents. This […]
Armed conflict exposure and trust: Evidence from a natural experiment in Turkey
We study the individual-level effects of exposure to internal armed conflict on social capital, focusing on trust in institutions and in social relations. We introduce […]
Information, Anxiety, and Persuasion: Analyzing Return Intentions of Displaced Persons
Jonathan Hall, James Igoe Walsh, Onah Peter Thompson
Anxiety influences how people attend to, interpret, and respond to information and potential threats. How does anxiety influence attempts to persuade? We hypothesize that the […]
Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad, Isabel Pastoor
Forced displacement has disrupted Syrian refugees’ lives and exposed them to new communities and norms. This paper assesses how gender norms shape the lives of […]