variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do … different types of conflict affect country growth rates? It finds that wars slow the economy. Estimates indicate that civil war …

focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes … in income inequality. Our results indicate rising levels of inequality during war and especially in the early period of … post-war reconstruction. However, we find that this rise in income inequality is not permanent. While inequality peaks …

focus on World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS), and propose suggestions on how to improve questionnaires …

examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the … Gaza ideology according to which the empire's central motivation was provided by a spirit of Holy War in the name of Islam …

increased threats of war prior to the World War II outbreak. This would explain, and possibly excuse, why their governments did … Nordic World War II historiography, they also demonstrate the value of analyzing historical market prices to reassess the … widely held war threat assessments from the fluctuations of sovereign market yields collected from all Nordic bond markets at …

period between the Seven Years? War and Waterloo. There are no outliers between 1816 and 1914. …

success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the … has retained its crucial role for battlefield performance throughout history. In general, human elements of warfare, like …