Does higher resource inequality between ethnic groups lead to ethnic conflict? In this paper, we empirically … increases the risk of ethnic conflict by 16 percentage points (or 0.43 standard deviations). This relationship depends on the … power relations between the ethnic groups. More specifically, the analysis at the ethnicity level shows that ethnic groups …

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … across artificial regions within an ethnicity's historical homeland and a theory-based instrumental variable approach, we …