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 […]
Economic Conditions and the Rise of Anti-Democratic Extremism
This paper provides evidence that adverse economic conditions contributed to the rise of anti-democratic extremism in the United States. A state-level analysis shows that increases […]
Covid-19, State Capacity, and Political Violence by Nonstate Actors
Ore Koren, Brittney Koehnlein
The COVID-19 pandemic has constrained the ability of states across the world to govern and control their territories. As the state reduces its activities, space […]
Public healthcare financing during counterinsurgency efforts: Evidence from Colombia
Samuel Lordemus, Noemi Kreif and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra
How do government counterinsurgency efforts affect local public financing during civil conflicts? We investigate this question in the context of the protracted conflict in Colombia. […]
The Long Shadow of the Kargil War: The Effect of Early-life Stress on Education
The paper examines the long-term impact of the India-Pakistan war of 1999 on the educational attainment and employment of children born to families of soldiers who survived the war.
Mass shootings and Infant Health in the United States
Tushar Bharati, Rakesh Banerjee
We study the causal effect of mass shooting incidents during pregnancy on infant health outcomes. Our identification strategy exploits the spatial and temporal variation of […]
Does Violent Conflict Affect Labor Supply of Farm Households? The Nigerian Experience
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, John Chiwuzulum Odozi
Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions over the last few decades leading to significant loss of life. In this paper, we […]
Perceived Temperature, Trust and Civil Unrest in Africa
This paper documents a significant effect of short-term temperature fluctuations on attitudes towards institutions and on civil unrest in Africa. Combining attitudinal survey and climate […]
Police Repression and Protest Behavior: Evidence from Student Protests in Chile
Mounu Prem, Felipe González
Police repression is a common feature of street protests around the world but evidence about its impact on dissident behavior is limited. We provide an […]
CSI in the tropics. Experimental evidence of improved public service delivery through coordination
Leopoldo Fergusson, Daniela Collazos, Miguel La Rota, Daniel Mejía, Daniel Ortega
This paper evaluates the impacts of increased coordination, accountability, and lead- ership among teams of responsible public officials, with evidence from homicide inves- tigations in […]
Welfare Impact of Hosting Refugees in Ethiopia
This paper examines the welfare impact of hosting refugees in Ethiopia, one of the largest refugee-hosting countries worldwide. The findings reveal different implications depending on […]
Conflict exposure and health: Evidence from the Gaza Strip
Michele Di Maio, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza
Using individual-level longitudinal data and geo-localized information on conflict-related violent events, we study the impact of conflict on health in the Gaza Strip. Results show […]
Commodity Booms, Conflict, and Organized Crime The Economics of Oil Palm Mafia Violence in Indonesia
Paul Kenny, Rashesh Shrestha Edward Aspinall
This paper examines the relationships between agrarian commodity booms and the incidence of group conflict and criminality in the context of Indonesia’s expanding oil palm […]
Yes They Can: Genocide, Political Participation, and Female Empowerment
Thorsten Rogall, Tatiana Zárate-Barrera
We study how genocide can lead to female empowerment, using data from Rwanda. We exploit exogenous variation in transport costs that affected the number of […]
The Peace Baby Boom: Evidence from Colombia’s peace agreement with the FARC
Juan F. Vargas, Mounu Prem, Elvira Guerra-Cújar Paul Rodríguez-Lesmes
Violent environments are known to affect household fertility choices, demand for health services and health outcomes of newborns. Using administrative data with a difference-in-differences, we […]
The Impact of Civil Conflict on Child Health: Evidence from Colombia
Internal armed conflicts have become more common and more physically destructive since the mid-20th century, with devastating consequences for health and development in low-and middle-income […]
Youth resentment and violence: evidence from Burkina Faso
Augustin Tapsoba, Pascale Combes Motel, Jean-Louis Combes
The paper aims to highlight the impact of youth satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) on the occurrence of violent conflicts in Burkina Faso. This work takes advantage […]
Civil Resistance in the Shadow of the Revolution: Historical Framing in Nicaragua’s Sudden Uprising
Kai Thaler, Eric Mosinger Diana Paz García Charlotte Fowler
Are grievances a necessary condition for civil resistance campaigns? Accumulating political or economic grievances play a key causal role in nearly every extant account of […]