Ethno-Linguistic Affinity, I show that civil conflict in Africa is likely to spill over between contiguous ethno …

We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at …

The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This …

conflict nor any type of citizen protest, on average. Both even reduce outright conflict by governments against civilians …

quality of governance) and the degree of market segmentation (depending on the level of ethnic fractionalization). The model …

Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not …? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in … cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance, increases an ethnicity's propensity to fight over government power. To …