Carlos Molina, Leopoldo Fergusson
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 […]
Diana Jimena Arango, Eliana Carolina Rubiano Matulevich, Lucia C. Hanmer, Uche Eseosa Ekhator-Mobayode
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
Claire MacPherson, Olivier Sterck
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 […]
Paolo Verme, Soazic Elise Wang Sonne
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
Daniel Mejía, Juan F. Vargas, Mounu Prem
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
Gert Peersman, Jasmien De Winne
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
José Tavares, Olga Popova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
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?
Abul Azad, Heidi Kaila
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
John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
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 […]
The Human Capital Peace Dividend
Juan F. Vargas, Mounu Prem, 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
Joseph-Simon Görlach, Marco Alfano
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
Marijke Verpoorten, Nik Stoop, 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
Ha Nguyen, Hai-Anh Dang, Trung X. Hoang
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
Philip Wollburg, Utz Pape
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
Luca Parisotto, Utz Pape
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
Alessandro Saia, Dominic Rohner
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 […]