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

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … across artificial regions within an ethnicity's historical homeland and a theory-based instrumental variable approach, we …

We estimate the impact of exposure to conflict on health outcomes using geographic information on households' distance … from conflict sites - a more accurate measure of shock exposure – and compare the impact on children exposed in utero … versus after birth. The identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing …

implementation. -- Sub-Saharan Africa ; party bans ; ethnicity ; conflict ; democracy …

Recent research on political parties and ethnicity has challenged the conventional wisdom about ethnicity as the major … ethnicity, still provides heuristically the best foundation for the explanation of party formation and voting behaviour in … Africa. It points out that inconclusive and contradicting research results about the salience of ethnicity can be attributed …

ethnic fractionalization is high. The analysis utilizes a new data set of disaggregate election results for 26 African … that factors like ethnic fractionalization, the size of the geographical area, and urbanization affect party …

We employ a two-tier spatiotemporal analysis to investigate whether uranium operations cause armed conflict in Africa …. The macrolevel analysis suggests that - compared to the baseline conflict risk - uranium ventures increase the risk of … intrastate conflict by 10 percent. However, we find ethnic exclusion to be a much better predictor of armed conflict than uranium …