American politics have been characterized by a high degree of partisan conflict in recent years. Combined with a … phenomena may be related. In this paper, I investigate the hypothesis that political discord depresses private investment. To … this end, I construct a novel high- frequency indicator of partisan conflict. The partisan conflict index (PCI) uses a …

conflict when defense capability is fixed, but may allow for security and prosperity when defense capability is endogenous … of conflict and stagnation. We illustrate the model by analyzing the rise of civilization in Sumeria and Egypt, the first …

estimation risk. At the individual fund level, our method pools information from the entire alpha distribution to make density …

In this paper, we empirically investigate how government ideology affects trade policy. The prediction of a partisan …, ideology-based model (within a two-sector, two-factor Heckscher-Ohlin framework) is that left-wing governments will adopt more …

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 …. Using a number of estimation strategies, including an RD design at ethnic boundaries, we find that segmentary lineage …