This study examines the long-term effects of prenatal exposure to war violence on cognitive and developmental outcomes … consistent effects. These results highlight the intergenerational consequences of war conflict, emphasizing the need for …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level …, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals and … reanalyze the emerging body of evidence, and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence …

This paper studies the incidence of civil war over time. We put forward a canonical model of civil war, which relates … significant predictors of higher within-country incidence of civil war …

. Using data for a variety of occupations, I document that the Civil War occasioned a dramatic divergence in the regional … after the War. The divergence was immediate, being apparent as early as 1866. It was persistent: for none of the occupations … explained by the changing racial composition of the Southern wage labor force after the War, but does appear consistent with a …

American Civil War, this paper studies the effect of capital destruction on medium and long-run local economic activity, and … the role of financial markets in the recovery process. We match an 1865 US War Department map of Sherman's march to county …

-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009). These findings have recently been challenged by Buhaug … climate data and to alternate codings of major war. Using Buhaug's preferred climate data under sound econometric assumptions …