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- […]
Cohesive Institutions and Political Violence
Thiemo Fetzer, Stephan Kyburz
Can institutionalized transfers of resource rents be a source of civil conflict? Are cohesive institutions better in managing distributive conflicts? We study these questions exploiting […]
Early life shocks and mental health: The long-term effect of war in Vietnam
This paper provides causal evidence on early-life exposure to war on mental health status in adulthood. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the evidence indicates that […]
Tilman Brück, Marco d’Errico Rebecca Pietrelli
This paper studies how conflict affects household resilience capacity and food security, drawing on panel data collected from households in Palestine before and after the […]
Proponents of ‘conflict mineral’ legislation, known as Dodd Frank Section 1502, describe sexual violence as a symptom of a conflict caused by access to and […]
Naureen Fatema, Shahriar Kibriya
Our study establishes a linkage between household level food sufficiency and food sharing with the reduction of low intensity micro level conflict using primary data […]
Resistance is Futile? Institutional and Geographic Factors in China’s Great Leap Famine
I present evidence that China’s state capacity was an important determinant of famine mortality during China’s Great Famine (1959-61). I hypothesize that variation arising from […]
Fueling Conflict? (De)Escalation and Bilateral Aid
Sarah Langlotz, Richard Bluhm Martin Gassebner Paul Schaudt
This paper studies the effects of bilateral foreign aid on conflict escalation and deescalation. First, we develop a new ordinal measure capturing the two-sided and […]