Brunnschweiler, Christa N; Bulte, Erwin H - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2009
In this paper we examine the claim that natural resources invite civil conflict, and challenge the main stylized facts … in this literature. We find that the conventional measure of resource dependence is endogenous with respect to conflict …, and that instrumenting for dependence implies that it is no longer significant in conflict regressions. Instead, it …