We study the role of an imbalance in fighting strengths when players bargain in the shadow of conflict. Our … experimental results suggest: In a simple bargaining game with an exogenous mediation proposal, the likelihood of conflict is … independent of the balance of power. If bargaining involves endogenous demand choices, however, the likelihood of conflict is …

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 … to mitigate conflict beyond difficult institutional reforms and raises the question of how governments can support the …

Few concepts have captured the imagination of the conflict and development communities in recent years as powerfully as … disagreements about its scope and the way it should be used; a growing schism between conflict specialists and economists; basic …

compares conflict choices of players in two-against-two, one-against-one, and two-against-one settings. Overall, we find … evidence for a higher propensity to opt for conflict when entering the fight in a group than when having to fight as a single … coincide with a biased perception of the fighting strength in asymmetric conflict. …

This project studies collaboration in highly skilled, nationally diverse teams. An unexpected international political … conflict makes national diversity more salient among existing and potential team members. I exploit this natural experiment to … quantify the role of social, identity-driven, costs for performance and formation of diverse teams. Using microdata from GitHub …