surveys to study the impact of crop diversification on household welfare, measured by real adult equivalent consumption and … that crop diversification is a welfare enhancing strategy that increases household consumption, food security and dietary … diversity. This holds for households in high and low conflict districts although the effect varies and households experiencing …

from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level … reanalyze the emerging body of evidence, and weigh alternative explanations. There is some indication that war violence …, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus while war has many negative legacies for individuals and …

capability of resulting alliances and, consequently, decreases the amount of militarized conflict. In order to measure the … finds that relational similarity better explains observed patterns of conflict than existing measures. …

all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to … contemporary source of institutional change, inform theories of conflict, and show that small sources of randomness can have a …

that customs unions and common markets (deep RTAs) do reduce the probability of war between members. Partial scope and free … trade agreements (shallow RTAs) however have no effect on war probabilities. Accordingly, international insecurity has a … disputes and that have low trade costs with the rest of the world, whereas the opposite is true for shallow RTAs. …

This paper investigates the determinants of the shape of regional trade agreements (RTAs). Because the world is …

We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms …, greater trade openness brings with it a reduction in resources diverted to conflict and thus wasted, as well as the familiar … with a third (friendly) country, a move from autarky to trade intensifies conflict between the two adversaries, inducing …

organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the … violence. By combining different data sources and implementing a new approach to deal with potential double-counting, we … provide a proxy for counter-insurgency efforts by the government. We show that the increase in violence is primarily driven by …

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption …