Conflict between and within countries can have lasting health and economic consequences, but identifying such effects … conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different birth cohorts to the fighting. The unique survey data … negative impacts due to conflict. Effects are robust to including region-specific time trends, alternative conflict exposure …

This paper investigates the effects of religion on a broad set of development outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. We … regroup these outcomes into three broad categories, namely, development process outcomes (growth, investment, conflict, and …-Saharan Africa. However, our findings do suggest that religion has important effects on the development process through its effects …

Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to … exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different children's birth … cohorts to the fighting. The paper uniquely incorporates GPS information on the distance between survey villages and conflict …

We examine the long-run consequences of the scramble for Africa among European powers in the late 19th century and … more prolonged and more devastating civil wars. Third, we identify sizeable spillovers; civil conflict spreads from the … sizable causal impact of the scramble for Africa on warfare. …

In this article, the influence of conflict on the economies of neighbouring countries is discussed. The results from … previous papers show a strong negative effect for an entire area around a country suffering from conflict, but this paper … number of regressions and concludes that conflict actually has two opposing effects. First, like conflict countries …

In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côte d’Ivoire. To identify the … true impact of conflict, we use (1) pre-war and post-war household data, (2) the specific counts of conflict events across … the worst-hit conflict areas and individuals who are the direct victims of the conflict having lower dietary energy supply …

end of the conflict in eight villages to describe the characteristics of the returnees vis-a-vis those of non … conflict and are less involved in the production of cash crops. Even though returnees seem to face worse economic conditions …

We examine the long-run consequences of the scramble for Africa among European powers in the late 19th century and … geographic, economic, and historical trait, including proxies of pre-colonial conflict, predicts partitioning by the national … borders. Second, we exploit a detailed geo-referenced database that records various types of conflict across African regions …

. Our results suggest that at the population level in Africa, conflict does not alter political beliefs, though the most …We test whether living through conflict in childhood changes political beliefs and engagement. We combine data on the …