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
James Igoe Walsh, Jonathan Hall, 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, Isabel Pastoor, Ragui Assaad
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
Juan F. Vargas, Miguel E. Purroy, Mounu Prem
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 […]
Tilman Brück, Wolfgang Stojetz
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, Fatlinda Gashi, Julie Litchfield
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 […]
Jacob Aronson, James Igoe Walsh, Jonathan Hall, Paul Huth, Sam Whitt, Vera Mironova
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
Heidi Kaila, Hyuk Harry Son, Larissa Nawo
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
Brittney Koehnlein, Ore Koren
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
Noemi Kreif, Rodrigo Moreno-Serra, Samuel Lordemus
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
Rakesh Banerjee, Tushar Bharati
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
John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
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
Gabriel Aboyadana, Marco Alfano
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 […]