Although most aid projects are aimed at local development, most research on the aid-conflict nexus is based on the … country-year as unit of analysis. In contrast, this study examines the link between aid commitments and conflict intensity at … local aid allocations. The data shows that in general the spatial interdependence between aid and conflict is low, as aid is …

of violent armed conflict, which focuses almost exclusively on linking annual variation in climatic conditions to … averaging is used to test whether variables measuring changes in local climate contribute consistently in explaining conflict … temperature is robustly linked to violent armed conflict: moving from low to high temperature levels corresponds to a 31% increase …