Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu; Rohner, Dominic; … - 2015 - First version: July 2014, This version: June 16, 2015
-cycle) explains 15-25 percent of average country-level violence in Africa. We then document how the appropriation of a mining area by …We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at … spatial resolution of 0.5o x 0.5o for all Africa over 1997-2010. Exploiting exogenous variations in world prices, we find a …
