The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create … the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this … war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long run impacts on human …

In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status (SES) and health of older … Retirement in Europe (SHARE) in 2009. This survey provides detailed data on events in childhood including those during the war as … well as several measures of exposure to war shocks such as experience of dispossession, persecution, combat in local areas …

focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the …

part of SHARE in Europe in 2009, with administrative data on food supply (caloric rations) in post-war Germany. The data …

variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …