There is growing evidence that ethnic divisions and conflict experience affect social capital and economic interactions … salience of election conflict. Our findings suggest electoral violence does not necessarily lead to changes in behavior between …

Macroeconomic costs of conflict are generally very large, with GDP per capita about 28 percent lower ten years after … conflict onset. This is overwhelmingly driven by private consumption, which falls by 25 percent ten years after conflict onset …. Conflict is also associated with dramatic declines in official trade, with exports (imports) estimated to be 58 (34) percent …

In this paper we present a conceptual framework linking cultural heterogeneity to inter-group conflict. When conflict … conflict is about rival goods, more similar groups are more likely to engage in war with each other. We formalize these ideas …

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 …