The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This …-retroviral therapy (ART) to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic - in Africa. To identify the effect, we combine exogenous variation in the scope … violent events in African countries and sub-national regions. The effect pertains to social violence and unrest, not civil war …

-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by … spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a … a fighting group contributes to the escalation from local to global violence. Finally, we analyze the impact of …

families to accept the practice of child marriage. Child marriage is more rooted in economic deprivation than in religiosity of …

suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract enforcement (depending on the …

wars in Sub-Saharan Africa. Another finding with the new dataset is that commodity price downturns also sparked civil wars … beyond Sub-Saharan Africa since 1980. Effects are sizable relative to the baseline risk of civil war outbreak. My conclusions …

Civil war is often caused by poverty, and further demolishes existing capital. Such a vicious circle is detrimental for …

exposure to violence substantially increases present bias - choice of the smaller, immediate reward over the larger, later … mitigates the differences in behavior between those who were exposed to violence and those who were not. Our findings suggest … patient choices and mitigate the elevated impulsivity of individuals that have experienced violence. We measure our treatment …