use life history data from West Germany to show that war widowhood increased women's employment immediately after World …Despite millions of war widows worldwide, little is known about the economic consequences of being widowed by war. We … War II but led to lower employment rates later in life. War widows, therefore, carried a double burden of employment and …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level …, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals and … reanalyze the emerging body of evidence, and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence …

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 …

perception of economic well-being, possibly influenced by such tactics, predicts war and peace onset. Using unique data … bracketing the onset of the Nepalese Civil War, we find that higher levels of perceived income adequacy are associated with later … war onset during periods of rebel recruitment, and with earlier peace onset in general. These results hold regardless of …

Measuring the economic impact of a war is a daunting task. Common indicators like casualties, infrastructure damages …-conflict migration patterns. A case study of the conflict in Eastern Ukraine between 2014 and 2019 shows a large lower-bound welfare loss …

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