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 …

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

Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …

This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether … armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the actions of a tenacious, brutally effective war machine, the Shining … Path, between 1980 and 1995. This study finds that the most sensitive period to early-life exposure to civil war violence …

Important gaps remain in the understanding of the economic consequences of civil war. Focusing on the conflict in …. Distinguishing between civil war and genocide, the findings also provide evidence that these returns, and by implication the process …

-sectional household surveys collected before and after the genocide. The identification strategy uses pre-war data to control for an age … were school-aged when exposed to the war. The findings show a strong negative impact of the genocide on schooling, with …

The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create … the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this … war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long run impacts on human …