support more radical factions and more radical attitudes towards the conflict. This effect is temporary, however, and vanishes …

to conflict and civil war. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by … individuals. We test for this link between segmentary lineage and conflict across 145 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa …-documented relationship between adverse rainfall shocks and conflict within Africa is only found within segmentary lineage societies …

The end of World War II brought a flood of returning veterans to America's colleges and universities. Yet, despite … evidence about the question of whether military service, combined with the availability of post-war educational benefits, led … structure of the draft during the World War II period and the changing manpower requirements in the armed forces to address the …

U.S. stock volatility is 33 percent lower during wartime and periods of conflict. This is true even for World Wars I … and II, which would seemingly increase uncertainty. In a seminal paper, Schwert (1989) identified the "war puzzle" as one …

our analysis of these new data, we find that the relatively stingy, fixed-price contracts of the Civil War era led … inventors to focus broadly on reducing costs, while the less cost-conscious procurement contracts of World War I did not. We …' preferences across wars. Finally, we find that the Civil War and World War I procurement shocks led to substantial increases in …

The nullification of slave wealth after the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) was one of the largest episodes of wealth … wealth by 1870, relative to households that had been equally wealthy before the war. Yet, the sons of former slaveholders …