Kriegerische und kriegsähnliche gewaltsame Auseinandersetzungen haben eine Vielzahl von Folgen, von denen die physischen Verheerungen lediglich einen Teilbereich darstellen. Unter anderem rücken die Auswirkungen auf Verhalten und Psyche mehr und mehr in den Fokus wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher...

The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in decisions regarding household purchases and the reduction...

The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in decisions regarding household purchases and the reduction...

In episodes of inter-group violence, which group members participate and which do not? Although such violence is frequently framed as occurring between distinct ethnic, racial, or sectarian groups, it is easily overlooked that it is usually only a subset of the group’s members who in fact...

This paper provides evidence on how having violence-exposed peers who migrated to nonviolent areas affects students' educational trajectories in receiving schools. To recover our estimates, we exploit the variation in local violence across different municipalities in the context of Mexico's war...