Although economic inequality has long been viewed as a cause of civil conflict, existing research has not found robust … empirical support for this relationship. This study explores the connections between inequality and civil conflict by focusing … data set with country- and group-level measures of inequality within and across ethnic groups. We then show that consistent …

This paper analyses the interplay between social structure and information exchange in two competing activities, crime … individuals outside the dyad partnership, referred to as weak ties. Individuals learn about crime opportunities either through … and/or crime is profitable, unemployment benefits have to be low enough to prevent workers for staying too long in the …