standalone effects. In this study, we focus on the case of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent Iran-Iraq war from … 1980 to 1988. We use the synthetic control method to study the effect of revolution and war on changes in income inequality … levels. Had there been no revolution and war in Iran, how would income inequality have developed? Utilizing the synthetic …

U.S. Civil War and World War I led to substantial increases in the quantity of prosthetic device patenting relative to … patenting in other medical and mechanical technology classes. Second, we find that the Civil War led inventors to focus broadly … on improving aspects of the production process, while World War I did not, consistent with the United States applying a …

Entrepreneurs are often situated in extreme environments characterized by violent conflict. Yet, war is largely a blind … study of entrepreneurial dynamics in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Relative to the synthetic counterfactual, Ukraine’s number of … way for systematic scholarship on “war and entrepreneurship,” our study proposes a conceptual framework integrating …

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of … Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …

Although the relationship between natural resources and civil war has received much attention, little is known about …

discount factors and the less destructive conflict is, the higher is the likelihood of war. …

systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly … polarization and test its predictive power in explaining the likelihood of civil conflict and civil war, analyzing 146 countries … educational polarization is associated with a 4.6 and 3.8 percentage point rise in the chances of civil conflict and civil war …