of opium profitability on conflict in Afghanistan. District level results indicate a conflict-reducing effect over the … valuable resources. By using data on the drug production process, ethnic homelands, and Taliban versus pro-government influence …We provide new evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. To do so, we combine …

prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in Afghanistan. There are two main mechanisms. First, household living …We provide evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. Combining temporal … contest effects if the degree of group competition over valuable resources is sufficiently small. Regressions using …

, and reduce conflict. Using georeferenced data on the drug production network and Taliban versus pro-government control …We provide evidence on the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict, focusing specifically on … illegal crops. We hypothesize that the degree of group competition over resources and the extent of law enforcement explain …

, and reduce conflict. Using georeferenced data on the drug production network and Taliban versus pro-government control …We provide evidence on the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict, focusing specifically on … illegal crops. We hypothesize that the degree of group competition over resources and the extent of law enforcement explain …

conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands …, reducing conflicts over scarce resources in contested areas. This suggests that market-based solutions are a promising pathway …

activity rely on formal sector data. Using high-frequency data from Afghanistan, this paper assesses how surges in conflict …Despite informality being the norm in conflict-affected countries, most estimates of the impact of conflict on economic … and the period of reference is 2012-2016. The results show that an increase in conflict-related casualties has a strong …

We study the impact of conflict on both the extensive and the intensive margin of child labor in Afghanistan. We … identify and test two main mechanisms. First, if conflict reduces a household income through a decline in parent … if the marginal benefits of working under conflict is greater than its marginal cost, which may depend on the relative …

activity rely on formal sector data. Using high-frequency data from Afghanistan, this paper assesses how surges in conflict …Despite informality being the norm in conflict-affected countries, most estimates of the impact of conflict on economic … foreign aid at the local level, which both influence local living standards in Afghanistan. The results show that an increase …

food expenditure and dietary diversity, in Afghanistan. A multinomial endogenous switching regression (MESR) with … diversity. This holds for households in high and low conflict districts although the effect varies and households experiencing … conflict tend to divert spending to food from other consumption spending. We also find a positive association between conflict …

We study the impact of conflict on both the extensive and the intensive margin of child labor in Afghanistan. We … identify and test two main mechanisms. First, if conflict reduces a household income through a decline in parent … if the marginal benefits of working under conflict is greater than its marginal cost, which may depend on the relative …