conflict; on the linkages between agriculture, food security, and conflict; on the role of technology for peace; and on the …We survey selected parts of the growing literature on the microeconomics of violent conflict, identifying where … review on the role of civilian agency in conflict; on wartime institutions; and on the private sector in conflict. Future …

nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …

While much of the literature studies causes and consequences of war, the reverberations of peace have rarely been … studied. By focusing on the universe of ceasefire agreements since 1993, we study the causal effect of peace on economic …, with their effectiveness in curbing hostilities being greater in areas where conflict is active closer in time to the …

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of … Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …

civil war between the Northern and Southern forces lasted for five decades with an intermission during the seventies. It … impediments that shall they face, e.g., return to war, underdeveloped region, lack of education, health and living facilities. In … this paper we reiterate the accords of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and introduce a theory that the Southern …

quo without arming (or unarmed peace) and open conflict (or war) that is possibly destructive. With a focus on outcomes … over an insecure portion of their combined output, we study the choice between a peace agreement that maintains the status … that are immune to both unilateral deviations and coalitional deviations, we find that, depending on war’s destructive …

Measuring the economic impact of a war is a daunting task. Common indicators like casualties, infrastructure damages …. This paper proposes a new method to estimate the welfare impact of conflicts and remedy common data constraints in conflict …-affected environments. The method first estimates how agents regard spatial welfare differentials by voting with their feet, using pre-conflict …

conflict exposure (ACE) among Turkish conscripts. Our empirical framework identifies the causal impact and isolates the … mediating pathways for the average male randomly picked from the population. Contrary to the arguments that war fosters … evidence that ACE fosters parochialism, measured by increased opposition to peaceful means of conflict resolution, animosity …

studying the effects of elimination vis-à-vis survival of Polish elites during World War II. Our focus is on the Polish …

With more than ten thousand casualties, the 2014 Ukrainian war between pro-Russian separatists and the government in … the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the short-term causal effects of the Donbass war on Ukraine's GDP. Results … war amounts to 15.1% on average for 2013-2017. Separate analysis for the affected provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk …