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 …

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 …

focus on World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS), and propose suggestions on how to improve questionnaires …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and …

probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the …

well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a … method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …

Between mid-1939 and mid-1943 almost 2.2 million additional women were recruited into Britain's essential war … employment were compulsorily directed into jobs and industries that were vital to the war effort. There were also many woman … involved owed their jobs to wartime industrial expansion. The majority of such women entered a world of work that had been …

success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the …

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 …