of opium profitability on conflict in Afghanistan. District level results indicate a conflict-reducing effect over the … valuable resources. By using data on the drug production process, ethnic homelands, and Taliban versus pro-government influence …We provide new evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. To do so, we combine …

prices reduce conflict over the 2002-2014 period in Afghanistan. There are two main mechanisms. First, household living …We provide evidence about the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict. Combining temporal … contest effects if the degree of group competition over valuable resources is sufficiently small. Regressions using …

, and reduce conflict. Using georeferenced data on the drug production network and Taliban versus pro-government control …We provide evidence on the mechanisms linking resource-related income shocks to conflict, focusing specifically on … illegal crops. We hypothesize that the degree of group competition over resources and the extent of law enforcement explain …

conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands …, reducing conflicts over scarce resources in contested areas. This suggests that market-based solutions are a promising pathway …

We study the impact of conflict on both the extensive and the intensive margin of child labor in Afghanistan. We … identify and test two main mechanisms. First, if conflict reduces a household income through a decline in parent … if the marginal benefits of working under conflict is greater than its marginal cost, which may depend on the relative …

activity rely on formal sector data. Using high-frequency data from Afghanistan, this paper assesses how surges in conflict …Despite informality being the norm in conflict-affected countries, most estimates of the impact of conflict on economic … foreign aid at the local level, which both influence local living standards in Afghanistan. The results show that an increase …

food expenditure and dietary diversity, in Afghanistan. A multinomial endogenous switching regression (MESR) with … diversity. This holds for households in high and low conflict districts although the effect varies and households experiencing … conflict tend to divert spending to food from other consumption spending. We also find a positive association between conflict …

high in Afghanistan, and especially so in regions that suffered less from conflict. This paper aims to explain this puzzle …Despite record economic growth in the decade that followed the fall of the Taliban regime, poverty remained stubbornly … by combining a model of conflict intensity at the province level in 2007−14 with a model of consumption at the household …

We examine the relationship between household income and happiness in Afghanistan and the moderating roles of fear of … provinces in Afghanistan. Employing fixed effects ordered logit regressions, our results reveal a positive association between … significantly impact their predicated level of happiness. This result can be attributed to two main issues. First, in conflict …