We investigate the event-based geopolitical shocks from the Russian invasion of Ukraine on selected agricultural and …

During World War II Americans were called upon repeatedly to salvage raw materials for the war effort, often during …, and the two most important, iron and steel, and rubber. The drives, it turns out, had a more limited impact on the economy …

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

statistical grades, particularly for war-torn countries with no recent population or economic censuses. The results also indicate …

return to Ukraine after the war has ended, are likely to have the greatest impact on long-run scientific productivity in …We discuss the impacts of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian science. Using newly collected data, we show that the war … has already had significant effects on science in Ukraine: research papers produced by Ukrainian scientists declined by …

a central puzzle: why do civil wars occur at all when, given the high costs of war, groups have every incentive to reach … literature has aimed to identify the causes of civil war. While most work is plagued by econometric identification problems, low … linked to civil war. We argue that microlevel analysis and data are needed to truly decipher war's causes, and understand the …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level …, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals and … reanalyze the emerging body of evidence, and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence …

(GATT) in promoting economic recovery and growth in Europe in the decade after World War II. The formation of the GATT does … not appear to have stimulated a particularly rapid liberalization of world trade in the decade after 1947. It is therefore … difficult to attribute much of a role to the GATT in the dramatic economic recovery during the immediate post-war period beyond …