This paper investigates the long-run effects of climate change on conflict by examining cooling from 1400-1900 CE, a … this time, cooling is associated with increased conflict. Then, turning to the dynamics of cooling, we allow the effects of … effect of cooling on conflict is significantly larger if the same location experienced cooling during the preceding period …

When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …

Using a unique pairing of household survey data and geolocational conflict data, we investigate the relationship … between local conflict intensity and the disciplinary methods employed by Iraqi households. We find that parents in high-conflict … document an association between violent conflict and child maltreatment and, to our knowledge, the first that document changes …

partly spills over into the next period, by affecting relative conflict efficiency. Our model generates non …-monotone evolution of both conflict and distribution. Results suggest that external interventions, when effective in reducing current … conflict and protecting weaker groups, may end up sowing the seeds of greater future conflict …

Vietnam is widely regarded as a success story for its impressive economic growth and poverty reduction in the last few …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … segregated in certain provinces. We find beneficial impact of economic growth on poverty reduction, but this can depend on …

on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty traps, ii) a literature review of evidence that different human …

parallel developments in the World Bank's measurement of global poverty that were stimulated by the report of the Commission on …A new book on measuring global poverty by the late Tony Atkinson was published in 2019 by Princeton University Press … Global Poverty, written by Atkinson, from which this book was developed. The new book is more than four hundred published …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its … 2020, the pandemic (and the observed private and policy responses) has generated at least 68 million additional poverty …