We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at …

We combine original geo-referenced data on mining extraction of 15 minerals with information on conflict events at …

-referenced information over the 1997-2010 period on the location and characteristics of violent events and mining extraction of 27 minerals … mining activity on the probability/intensity of conflict at the local level. This is both true for low-level violence (riots … minerals' world prices; however the results are robust to various alternative strategies, both in the cross-section and panel …

spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for mines, night-time light emissions, local populations and ethnic homelands, we …

spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent …-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for mines, night-time light emissions, local populations and ethnic homelands, we …

daily surrenders of the Maoist insurgents in India between 2006 and 2018. In order to measure the exposure of the conflict …

Studies that examine the impact of food prices on conflict usually assume that (all) changes in international food … commodity prices, we show that this assumption could seriously distort estimations of the impact on conflict in African regions …. Specifically, we show that increases in food prices that are caused by harvest shocks outside Africa raise conflict significantly …