This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic …

Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to … exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different children's birth … cohorts to the fighting. The paper uniquely incorporates GPS information on the distance between survey villages and conflict …

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

analyze whether and how quickly a conflict-avoidance take-turn strategy can emerge. First, our results show that players learn … to solve the conflict by choosing opposite options at both stages of the game. Second, many adopt a take-turn strategy to … increases the likelihood of conflict resolution even when a single pair member has the right to communicate. …

better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking income disparities and individual health …

. Specialization based on comparative advantage leads to gains from trade. If political conflict leads to a diminution of trade, then … at least a portion of the costs of conflict can be measured by a nation's lost gains from trade. The greater two nations …' gain from trade the more costly is bilateral (dyadic) conflict. This notion forms the basis of Baron de Montesquieu …

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of … Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The effect of being directly impacted by conflict on a child's educational accumulation and … productivity. This paper explores the educational accumulation and enrollment gap created by being directly affected by conflict …