How does conflict exposure affect trust? We hypothesize that direct (firsthand) experience with conflict induces … improve. Indirect exposure to conflict through third-party accounts, on the other hand, reduces trust toward everyone. We find …-Muslim conflict during 1999-2002, as well as in three cross-country datasets exploiting temporal and spatial variation in exposure to …

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 … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …

We study the long-run effects of conflict on social attitudes, with World War II in Central and Eastern Europe as our …

Several papers have attempted to estimate and document the impact of conflict on numerous education, health and … socioeconomic outcomes. One lesson from this research is the heterogeneity in the effect of violent conflict across and within … countries. In this paper we attempt to estimate the casual impact of conflict in Nigeria on welfare related outcomes. The 2009 …

collapse of communist regimes. Yet, the role of conflict has been largely overlooked in the relevant literature on "missing … girls". We argue that conflict and group survival concerns can exacerbate the initial son bias and lead to relatively more … of Nagorno Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. First, individual-level survey analysis from Armenia shows …

Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions over the last few decades leading to significant … loss of life. In this paper, we explore the potential short and accumulated long term effects of such conflict on labor … conflict data, we estimate the effect of violent conflict on a farm household members labor supply. Our findings suggest that …

-based predictions with data on secessionist movements, state fragility, regional autonomy, and conflict, as well as with an application …

communicate a self-chosen personal characteristic towards the rival on conflict behavior. In a two-player individual contest with …-characteristics significantly affect the average level of conflict. Both of those, however, significantly affect players' strategies, in the sense … of the extent they involve conflict over time. Overall, the results indicate that inter-personal communication may help …