Hidalgo, F. Daniel; Naidu, Suresh; Nichter, Simeon; … - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 92 (2010) 3, pp. 505-523
This study estimates the effect of economic conditions on redistributive conflict. We examine land invasions in Brazil using a panel data set with over 50,000 municipality-year observations. Adverse economic shocks, instrumented by rainfall, cause the rural poor to invade and occupy large...