This paper investigates whether poor employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel conflict. The paper … benefits are unobserved. In contrast, many other shocks in the conflict literature are persistent and unanticipated, thus also … estimates of the effect of harvest shocks on conflict intensity in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan using subnational variation …

The Republic of Yemen has undergone a profound transformation following the escalation of conflict in March 2015. There … poor welfare outcomes contrasts with evidence from other conflict settings, and further contrasts with the rationale …