/methodology/approach – The case of the Rwanda genocide is used to examine identity disturbances related to policies. Findings – Identity … adjustments generated by policies can have devastating effects such as genocide. This raises the issue of national decision makers …

genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of …The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the …

How do political elites prepare the civilian population for participation in violent conflict? We empirically … investigate this question using village-level data from the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. Every Saturday before 1994, Rwandan …, in the years before the genocide, regularly used for spreading political propaganda. To establish causality, we exploit …

An economic theory of genocide is presented with application to Rwanda-1994. The theory considers 'macro' conditions … under which an authority group chooses genocide and 'micro' conditions that facilitate the spread of genocide. From the … macro perspective, a bargaining model highlights four rational explanations for an authority's choice of genocide …

genocide in Rwanda, identifying conflict exposure of the survivors in multiple ways. The analysis finds a robust effect of …The aim of this paper is to study the short and long-term fertility effects of mass violent conflict on different … genocide on fertility, with a strong replacement effect for lost children. Having lost siblings reduces fertility only in the …

sufficient conditions for a genocide and applies the model in order to analyze the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. It suggests that the …, strategies - survival by migration and, once a conflict is ignited, survival by taking refuge. Results include determinants of … migration and refugee flows, the threshold for violent conflict and its intensity. Second, it derives the necessary and …