around five years after the end of a conflict, it declines again to pre-war levels within the end of the first post-war … period. Lagged effects of conflict and only subsequent adjustments of redistributive policies in the period of post-war … focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes …

probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the … inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite of the conclusion reached by Gartzke et al. (2001), who reject the … opportunity costs as the basis for the inverse trade-conflict relationship, thus implying that one need not rely on signaling. …

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 … reduces annual growth by .01 to .13 percentage points, and high-intensity interstate conflict reduces annual growth by .18 to …

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …

). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …