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 […]
Landmines: The Local Effects of Demining
Mounu Prem, Juan F. Vargas, Miguel E. Purroy
Anti-personnel landmines are one of the main causes of civilian victimization in conflict- affected areas and a significant obstacle for post-war reconstruction. Demining campaigns are […]
A ‘bright’ side of war? Armed conflict and female teen marriage in Azerbaijan
Does exposure to armed conflict influence female teen marriage? Despite increasing attention to early marriage, its drivers and consequences, quantitative research on whether teen unions […]
While there are reasons to expect a link between armed conflict and victimisation in intimate relationships, empirical evidence on the association is scant and rarely […]
Adolescents’ Transition to Adulthood and Their Assimilation from Violent to Peaceful Contexts
We study the assimilation to peaceful contexts among adolescents who were exposed to violence (armed conflict) regarding three transitions: marriage/cohabitation, household management and childbearing. The […]
Wolfgang Stojetz, Tilman Brück,
During protracted displacement, women and girls often face serious gender-specific challenges and vulnerabilities, including adverse norms and institutional barriers. Yet, quantitative evidence on gendered drivers […]
Angry men and Civic women? Gendered effects of conflict on political participation
Elodie Douarin, Julie Litchfield, Fatlinda Gashi
We study the effect of the 1998-99 Kosovo war on current levels of political participation, disaggregating our analysis by the type of conflict experience, namely […]
Jonathan Hall, Sam Whitt, Jacob Aronson, Vera Mironova, Paul Huth, James Igoe Walsh
Power-sharing is a widely recognized strategy for reaching durable settlements to civil wars with center-periphery and identity-based cleavages. However, in practice, power-sharing arrangements are often […]
Unpacking the Links between Conflict and Child Welfare: Evidence from a Foreign Insurgency
Violent conflicts have enduring effects on child welfare, but little is understood about the mechanisms underlying these effects. Using data from Cameroon collected from a […]
Foreign Interventions and Community Cohesion in Times of Conflict
The success of foreign interventions crucially depends on cohesion within communities as they are relevant partners in counterinsurgency and reconstruction. I exploit a geographic regression […]
Civil conflict, cash transfers, and child nutrition in Yemen
Jean-Francois Maystadt, Olivier Ecker
The most dramatic outcomes of protracted civil conflict include increased malnutrition among children and the resulting consequences for lifelong health and prosperity. Little is known […]