shortly after the war seem to have dissipated by 2000. While these are important outcomes to economists, by focusing on them …

overseas deployment, which can include service in a combat or war zone, exposure to casualties, or both. The 2010 National …

We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a … positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and … to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors …

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply during World War II. We … decisions. We use the model to assess the impact of the war on female labor supply and fertility in the decades following the … war. For the war generation of women, the high demand for female labor brought about by mobilization leads to an increase …

Warfare is enormously destructive, and yet countries regularly initiate armed conflict against one another. Even more …

belligerents: Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. At the outbreak of the war, these nations suspended … convertibility of their currencies into gold with the promise that after the war each would restore convertibility at the old par …. However, once convertibility was suspended, the value of each currency depended on the outcome of the war. I decompose …

fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …

Are states led by women less prone to conflict than states led by men? We answer this question by examining the effect … of female rule on war among European polities over the 15th-20th centuries. We utilize gender of the first born and … more likely to engage in war than polities led by kings. Moreover, the tendency of queens to engage as aggressors varied by …