democratization, international openness, and conflict. It also reviews studies of political integration and disintegration that focus … discusses recent empirical studies that shed light on the relations among heterogeneity, conflict, and borders. This line of …

private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination problem. The …

higher payoffs in the game when the talk is one-way as the truthful reports facilitate desired coordination. …

perceive a fundamental parameter with noise. We focus on 2 x 2 coordination games, which generate multiple equilibria when …

coordination. In a fixed interaction treatment, a vast majority of subjects quickly coordinates on the inefficient outcome. In a …

Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers … could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also … on conflict in Niger. The analysis relies on the large-scale randomization of a government-led cash transfer program …

insight that social preferences transform social dilemmas into coordination problems with the logic of forward induction. As a … based on neighborly recognition of borders could deliver a desired low-conflict situation if accompanied by an optional …

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …

nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …