explanations and advocacy. Rigorous empirical study of civil war requires a precise definition of an imprecise and poorly observed … ethnic differences are conventionally regarded as the causes of civil war. Economic theory explains civil war in the … distinctive feature of civil war: the emergence and persistence of a rebel army: some conditions make rebellion both more …

This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using … three waves of the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, the authors employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify … the impact of war on women's employment decisions. The results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency …