of violent armed conflict, which focuses almost exclusively on linking annual variation in climatic conditions to … averaging is used to test whether variables measuring changes in local climate contribute consistently in explaining conflict … temperature is robustly linked to violent armed conflict: moving from low to high temperature levels corresponds to a 31% increase …

political institutions are the key determinant of economic development. The main finding of this paper is that the focus on the … primacy of legal and political institutions may be misplaced and that business-friendly economic policies (proxied for here by …

Although most aid projects are aimed at local development, most research on the aid-conflict nexus is based on the … country-year as unit of analysis. In contrast, this study examines the link between aid commitments and conflict intensity at … local aid allocations. The data shows that in general the spatial interdependence between aid and conflict is low, as aid is …

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of studies using microlevel data to analyse the aid-conflict … nexus at local level, however most of these studies focus on how conflict dynamics are influenced by aid allocations whereas … there is relatively little analysis on how conflict affects subnational aid allocations. Estimating the effect of conflict …

in a mass of new event data covering conflict in Africa and Asia from 1990 to 2014. Moreover, there are similar …