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 […]
Assi José Carlos Kimo, Ismahel Abdoul Barry, Zié Ballo
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 […]
Kirsten Schuettler, Paolo Verme
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
Armand Mboutchouang Kountchou, Gadom Djal Gadom, Soazic Elise Wang Sonne
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
Felipe González, Luis R. Martínez, María Angélica Bautista, Mounu Prem, 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?
Neil Ferguson, Tilman Brück, Valeria Izzi, Wolfgang Stojetz
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 […]
Bumba Mukherjee, Ore Koren
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 […]
Alexander V. Prishchepov, Eugenia V. Bragina, He Yin, Hovik Sayadyan, Johanna Buchner, Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle, Van Butsic, Volker C. Radeloff
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 […]
Ceren Baysan, Edward Miguel, Felipe González, Marshall Burke, 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
Cristiano Codagnone, Daniel Reyes Galvis, Francesco Bogliacino, Gianluca Grimalda, Laura Jiménez
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
Andrés F. Rivera Dario A. Romero, Juan F. Vargas, Mounu Prem
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
Juan F. Vargas, Mounu Prem, 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
Heidi Kaila Divya Tuteja, Saurabh Singhal
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 […]