Political accountability and participation are taken as key ingredients for development. In this context voter education and informational campaigns are becoming popular with donors. We followed a large-scale randomized campaign against electoral violence sponsored by an international NGO during...

Using original survey data, we examine how insecurity affects welfare. Correcting for unobserved heterogeneity and possible endogenecity, we find a strong effect on incomes, school enrolment and health status, but no effect on infant mortality. The effect of insecurity is robust to the inclusion...