the start of the war with those who responded shortly after the conflict began and applying difference-in-differences (DiD …) models over time, we find a significant decline in the outcome after the war started. These findings provide new evidence on … how armed conflicts influence social trust and well-being among young people in a country not directly involved in the war. …

examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the … Gaza ideology according to which the empire's central motivation was provided by a spirit of Holy War in the name of Islam …

probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the …. -- War ; conflict ; trade ; trade-conflict relationship ; interdependence ; incomplete information game ; signaling …

affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. -- conflict ; violence ; war …

variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …-democracies, low income countries, and countries in Africa. -- Economic growth ; war ; conflict …

focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labor during World War … the one experienced by American women during wartime mobilization. For the war generation, the shock leads to a persistent … war face increased labor-market competition, which impels them to exit the labor market and start having children earlier …