of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human … capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates … of the impact of conflict point to negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth of -12 percent on average over 2011 …

adulthood, using a novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction in the United States during the Vietnam War. The paper … associations exist only for men who did not serve in the war, and are not present for women or men who did serve. These findings … add to the evidence on the lasting consequences of stress, and indicate that induction risk during the Vietnam War may, in …

effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the Islamic State on the Levant. Syria and Iraq bear the brunt of the direct …

This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using … the impact of war on women's employment decisions. The results indicate that as a result of the Maoist-led insurgency …, women's employment probabilities were substantially higher in 2001 and 2006 relative to the outbreak of war in 1996. These …

the occupied areas during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school …

and Eastern provinces that faced the brunt of the decades-long conflict remain disproportionately poor. To understand the …

This paper studies the performance of alternative prediction models for conflict. The analysis contrasts the … correlates of conflict to minimize the prediction loss function, and (2) an algorithm that chooses a set of thresholds for the … same variables, together with the number of breaches of thresholds that constitute a prediction of conflict, that minimize …

of violent conflict at the micro-level. The authors review existing conflict -- and violence-related survey … challenges associated with empirical work in conflict-affected areas?such as operationalizing a definition of conflict, using the … ethically sound manner?and propose ways to improve the usefulness of existing surveys to analyze conflict processes at the micro …