political institutions and violence are jointly determined. We take advantage of an experiment of history to examine the impact … violence in nineteenth-century Colombia was a technology for political elites to compete for the rents from power, and that … democracy constituted an alternative way to compete which substituted violence …

election held in Africa and one seriously marred by violence.  We designed and conducted a nationwide field experiment based on … randomized anti-violence grassroots campaigning.  We find direct effects on violence outcomes from exploring both subject … that the violence was systematically dissociated from incumbents.  We suggest that incumbents have a comparative advantage …

election held in Africa and one seriously marred by violence. We designed and conducted a nationwide field experiment based on … randomized anti-violence grassroots campaigning. We find direct effects on violence outcomes from exploring both subject … that the violence was systematically dissociated from incumbents. We suggest that incumbents have a comparative advantage …

election held in Africa and one seriously marred by violence. We designed and conducted a nationwide field experiment based on … randomized anti-violence grassroots campaigning. We find direct effects on violence outcomes from exploring both subject … that the violence was systematically dissociated from incumbents. We suggest that incumbents have a comparative advantage …

This paper exploits data on the pattern of violence across regions and over time to estimate the impact of the peace … approach based on an economic model where the parameters of the statistical process are estimated for a Markov switching model … killings across space and time which we use to generate estimates of the peace dividend. The economic model suggests a somewhat …

This paper studies the effect of female political representation on violence against women. Using a Regression … leads to a reduction in episodes of gender violence. The effect is particularly strong when focusing on incidents of … domestic violence, when the aggressor is the ex-husband/boyfriend, and when victims experienced sexual violence. The evidence …

analysis of large-scale violent conflict with other forms of violence, instability, fragility, and humanitarian crises. …

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent …