The Human Capital Peace Dividend
Mounu Prem, Juan F. Vargas, Olga Namen
While the literature has documented negative effects of conflict on educational outcomes, there is surprisingly very little evidence on the effect of conflict termination on […]
Terrorism, education, and the role of perceptions: Evidence from al-Shabaab attacks in Kenya
This paper investigates how terrorism alters human capital investment through perceived uncertainty. Using various estimators, we identify a causal negative effect of terrorism on Kenyan […]
Artisanal or Industrial Conflict Minerals? Evidence from Eastern Congo
Nik Stoop, Marijke Verpoorten, Peter van der Windt,
Existing research suggests a strong link between mining and local conflict but makes no distinction between artisanal and industrial mining. We exploit variation in mineral […]
The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access: Evidence from the First Indochina War
Very few studies currently exist on the long-term impacts of schooling policies in developing countries. This paper examines the impacts—half a century later—of a mass […]
Estimation of Poverty in Somalia Using Innovative Methodologies
Somalia is highly data-deprived, leaving policy makers to operate in a statistical vacuum. To overcome this challenge, the World Bank implemented wave 2 of the […]
Estimating Poverty in a Fragile Context – The High Frequency Survey in South Sudan
The High Frequency South Sudan Survey, implemented by the South Sudan National Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the World Bank, conducted several waves of […]
Education and Conflict Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Indonesia
Dominic Rohner, Alessandro Saia
This paper studies the impact of school construction on the likelihood of conflict, drawing on a policy experiment in Indonesia, and collecting our own novel […]
This paper investigates the impact of alternative economic opportunities for the youth in consolidating positive peace. Using data from randomized control trial from a cash-for-work […]
The paper reviews 54 empirical studies that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A review of the empirical models used by these […]
The Local Impact of Armed Conflict on Children’s Nutrition and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Chad
Soazic Elise Wang Sonne, Armand Mboutchouang Kountchou, Gadom Djal Gadom
This study examines the local and indirect impacts of the 2005-2010 armed conflict on under- five years’ old children’s nutrition and health outcomes in Chad. […]
Good Intentions Gone Bad? The Dodd-Frank Act and Conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes Region
The Dodd-Frank Act imposes reporting requirements on US companies regarding supply chain links to conflict minerals. Previous research uses within-DRC variation in the location of […]
The Origins of Violence in Rwanda
This paper shows that the intensity of violence in Rwanda’s recent past can be traced back to the initial establishment of its precolonial state. Villages […]
The Geography of Dictatorship and Support for Democracy
Mounu Prem, María Angélica Bautista Felipe González Luis R. Martínez Pablo Muñoz
We study whether exposure to the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile (1973-1990) affected political attitudes and behavior, exploiting the plausibly exogenous location of […]
Can Jobs Programs Build Peace?
Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson, Wolfgang Stojetz, Valeria Izzi
In the last decade, well over $10bn has been spent on interventions that aim to build peace and social stability through employment. Despite this degree […]
Ore Koren, Bumba Mukherjee
Authoritarian regimes frequently commit systematic killings of their own subjects, yet the mechanisms governing this behavioral shift remain unclear. We address this puzzle by developing […]
Michele Di Maio, Roberto Nisticò,
We study the effect of parental job loss on child school dropout in developing countries. We focus on Palestinian households living in the Occupied Palestinian […]
Armed conflicts are globally widespread and can strongly influence societies and the environment. However, where and how armed conflicts affect agricultural land-use is not well-understood. […]
The Impact of Peace: Evidence from Nigeria
This paper studies the consequences of peace – or conversely, conflict – on four outcomes of fundamental economic relevance: Education, health, self- employment income and […]
Edward Miguel, Ceren Baysan Marshall Burke Felipe González Solomon Hsiang
Organized intergroup violence is almost universally modeled as a calculated act motivated by economic factors. In contrast, it is generally assumed that non-economic factors, such […]
Trust and trustworthiness after a land restitution program: Lab-in-the-field evidence from Colombia
Francesco Bogliacino, Gianluca Grimalda Laura Jiménez Daniel Reyes Galvis Cristiano Codagnone
We assess the impact of a governmental program to compensate victims of forced displacement on pro-social behavior. All our subjects were eligible to apply for […]