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 […]
Mass Atrocities and their Prevention
Charles Anderton, Jurgen Brauer,
Counting conservatively, and ignoring physical injuries and mental trauma, data show about 100 million mass atrocity-related deaths since 1900. Occurring in war- and in peacetime, […]
Killing Social Leaders for Territorial Control: The Unintended Consequences of Peace
Mounu Prem, Juan F. Vargas, Andrés F. Rivera Dario A. Romero
Incomplete peace agreements may inadvertently increase insecurity if they trigger violent territorial contestation. We study the unintended consequences of the Colombian peace process and find […]
End-of-Conflict Deforestation: Evidence from Colombia’s Peace Agreement
Mounu Prem, Juan F. Vargas, Santiago Saavedra
Armed conflict can endanger natural resources through several channels such as direct predation from fighting groups, but it may also help preserve ecosystems by dissuading […]
Do Fences Make Good Neighbors? Evidence from an Insurgency in India
Saurabh Singhal, Heidi Kaila Divya Tuteja
India has employed a variety of military, political and economic measures to combat the long running insurgency in Kashmir with little evidence on what contributes […]
Stimulant or depressant? Resource-related income shocks and conflict
Sarah Langlotz, Kai Gehring Stefan Kienberger
We provide evidence on the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to con- flict, focusing specifically on illegal crops. We hypothesize that the degree of group […]
Beatriz Manotas Hidalgo, Fidel Pérez Sebastián Miguel Ángel Campo-Bescós
This paper reexamines the effect of exogenous income shocks and ethnic diversity on social conflict in Africa. Unlike previous literature, we jointly consider geolocalized information […]
The Onset, Spread, and Prevention of Mass Atrocities: Perspectives from Network Models
Charles Anderton, Jurgen Brauer,
History is replete with cases of intentional, systematic, and substantial destruction of noncombant civilians by powerful elites including dictatorial and nondictatorial governments and nonstate groups […]
The impact of low-skill refugees on youth education
This paper examines the impact of Syrian refugees on high school enrollment rates of native youth in Turkey. Syrian refugees are, on average, less skilled […]
Armed Conflict and Child Labor: Evidence from Iraq
This paper examines the relationship between armed conflict intensity and child labor using household level data from Iraq and taking advantage of a quasi-experimental setup. […]
Data collected for refugee registration and to target humanitarian assistance include information about household composition and demographics that can be used to identify gender- based […]
The Microeconomics of Violent Conflict
Philip Verwimp, Patricia Justino, Tilman Brück,
In our brief review, we take stock of the emergence, in the last decade, of the “microeconomics of violent conflict” as a new subfield of […]
The Cost of Fear: Impact of Violence Risk on Child Health During Conflict
The impact of violence on child health has long-lasting consequences that increase the overall cost of conflict. Beyond the damage caused to direct victims of […]
Philip Verwimp, Federico Barra Claudia Berg
The nexus of conflict, transportation costs, and poverty is one which has received scant attention in the literature. This paper explores the effect of conflict […]
Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson, Eleonora Nillesen, Kai M. Dunker Aline Meysonnat
Abstract: Violent conflict is a well-recogniseddriver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In […]
Dominic Rohner, Joan Esteban Sabine Flamand Massimo Morelli
This paper builds a dynamic theory of secessions, conflictual or peaceful, analyzing the forward looking interaction between groups in a country. The proposed framework allows […]
Assets for Alimentation? The Nutritional Impact of Assets-Based Programming in Niger
Tilman Brück, Neil Ferguson, Oscar Mauricio Díaz Botía J. Ouédraogoc Z. Ziegelhöfer
A recent strand of aid programming aims to develop household assets by removing the stresses associated with meeting basic nutritional needs. In this paper, we […]
Oil Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Nigeria
This paper studies the effect of international oil prices on civil conflict in Nigeria. Our analysis uses time variation in global oil prices and cross-sectional […]
Unemployment and Violent Extremism: Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits
Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State group (also known as ISIS/ISIL or Daesh) have shown an ability to attract radicalized individuals from many […]
Resources, Conflict, and Economic Development in Africa
Achyuta Adhvaryu, James Fenske Gaurav Khanna Anant Nyshadham
Evidence suggests that natural resources drive both conflict and underdevelopment in modern Africa. We show that this relationship exists primarily when neighboring regions are resource- […]