The Diplomatic Burden of Pandemics: The Case of Malaria
Ore Koren, Benjamin E. Bagozzi
This paper seeks to understand the extent of the disruptions to international relations caused by pandemics, focusing on one globally-prevalent example: malaria. We posit that […]
Chile’s Missing Students: Dictatorship, Higher Education and Social Mobility
Mounu Prem, Maria Angélica Bautista Felipe González Luis R. Martínez Pablo Muñoz
Hostile policies towards higher education are a prominent feature of authoritarian regimes. We study the capture of higher education by the military dictatorship of Augusto […]
Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology
‘Hearts and minds’ theory contends development aid strengthens community support for counterinsurgents by providing jobs and public goods. Based on field interviews in Kabul, we […]
Targeting humanitarian aid using administrative data: model design and validation
Stephen O’Connell, Onur Altındağ Aytuğ Şaşmaz Zeynep Balcıoğlu§ Paola Cadoni Matilda Jerneck Aimee Kunze Foong
We develop and assess the performance of an econometric prediction model that relies on administrative data held by international agencies to target over $380 million […]
Children of Crisis: The Effects of Economic Shocks on Newborns
Mevlude Akubulut, Seyit Mumin Cilasun Belgi Turan
In this paper, we explore the deep economic crisis experienced by the Turkish economy in 2001 and 2008 as quasi-experiments to causally identify the association […]
Riots and social capital in urban India
Patricia Justino, Jean-Pierre Tranchant, Alia Aghajanian
This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset collected by the authors in […]
Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan
Caroline Krafft, Maia Sieverding Nasma Berri Caitlyn Keo Mariam Sharpless
The children affected by the Syrian conflict are at risk of becoming a “lost generation” due to interruptions in their schooling, including among the large […]
Leopoldo Fergusson, Carlos Molina
The Internet and social media have been considered crucial determinants of recent political turmoil and protests. To estimate the causal impact of Facebook on collective […]
Ethno-Regional Favoritism and the Political Economy of School Test Scores
The northern provinces of Burundi have suffered from an inferior education system since independence. This paper shows that the current, northern-led regime has chosen a […]
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is the most common form of violence against women in both conflict and non-conflict settings but in conflict settings it often […]
Empowering Refugees through Cash and Agriculture: A Regression Discontinuity Design
Olivier Sterck, Claire MacPherson
Assistance to refugees is shifting from a humanitarian model, which focuses on protection, emergency relief, and shelter, to a development model promoting refugee self-reliance through […]
Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, Paolo Verme
This paper examines how parents’ early childhood exposure to a refugee crisis impacts their children’s health status. Based on Demographic and Health Survey data from […]
The Rise and Persistence of Illegal Crops: Evidence from a Naive Policy Announcement
Mounu Prem, Juan F. Vargas, Daniel Mejía
Well-intended policies often have negative unintended consequences if they fail to foresee the different ways in which individuals may respond to the new set of […]
#Portichiusi: the human costs of migrant deterrence in the Mediterranean
Using daily data on forced migration from the IOM, I compare trends in flows and mortality across three major migration routes in the Mediterranean, analysing […]
The Impact of Food Prices on Conflict Revisited
Studies that examine the impact of food prices on conflict usually assume that (all) changes in international food prices are exogenous shocks for individual countries […]
Extreme Temperature and Extreme Violence across Age and Gender: Evidence from Russia
We examine the relationship between extreme temperatures and violent mortality across Russian regions, with implications for the social costs of climate change. We assess the […]
Conflict, Household Victimization, and Welfare: Does the Perpetrator Matter?
This paper studies the relationship between conflict and household welfare by using a detailed panel data set of household victimization across the most conflict-affected regions […]
Conflict Exposure and Economic Welfare in Nigeria
Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere, John Chiwuzulum Odozi
Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on several education, health and socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from the past research […]
Since the beginning of the Refugee Crisis in 2015, the political resolution of armed conflicts has gained in importance and urgency at the international level. […]
In and Out of the Unit: Social Ties and Insurgent Cohesion in Civil War
Studies of cohesion focus on pre-war networks of insurgency organizers and war-time socialization processes, but do not account for cohesion in civil wars involving spontaneous […]