The Protective Role of Index Insurance in the Experience of Violent Conflict: Evidence from Ethiopia
Dan Maggio, John McPeak, Tekalign Sakketa
Droughts are among the leading causes of livestock mortality and conflict among pastoralist populations in East Africa. To foster climate resiliency in these populations, Index […]
State-Based Conflict and Entrepreneurship – Empirical Evidence
Ernesto Armorós, Tilman Brück, Wim A. Naudé
This paper investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. From a survey of the existing literature, we formulate two hypotheses: (1) state-based conflict has […]
Rebel Governance and Development: The Persistent Effects of Distrust in El Salvador
Antonella Bandiera, Juan Miguel Jimenez, Lelys Dinarte Diaz, Miara Micaela Sviatschi, Sandra Rozo
How does rebel governance affect long-term development? Rebel forces have controlled territory and imposed their own institutions in many countries over the past decades affecting […]
Cash and Conflict – Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger
Dominic Rohner, Patrick Premand
Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households’ welfare […]
Dorothee Weiffen, Ghassan Baliki, Tilman Brück
Agricultural interventions are one of the key policy tools to strengthen the food security of households living in conflict settings. Yet, given the complex nature […]
How Peace Saves Lives: Evidence from Colombia
Juan F. Vargas, Miguel E. Purroy, Mounu Prem, Sergio Perilla
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
Andreas Kammerlander, Kerstin Unfried
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, Paolo Verme, Trong-Anh Trinh
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
Amalia Hadas Rubin, and Jocelyn Kelly, Caroline Krafft, Diana Jimena Arango
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
Daniel Meierrieks, Max Schaub
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
Mohammad H. Sepahvand, Philip Verwimp
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 […]
Andrea Berlanda, Dominic Rohner, Dominic Rohner, Elena Esposito, Matteo Cervallati, 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
Bumba Mukherjee, Ore Koren
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 […]