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 …

This paper analyzes the relationship between poverty and conflict in the macro and regional data, including a detailed … that conflict has on health and expectations. Based on this evidence, it develops a statistical framework to track the … cumulative long-term impact that armed conflict has on poverty, which the paper calls conflict debt. The data confirm that …