the legacy of the war or peace are sufficient to account for the variations in strategic violence. Drawing on recent work …What explains variations in violence in post-conflict states? Within the existing literature, violence in post-conflict … the war (that is, the death and destruction caused by the war itself) or by the legacy of the peace (that is, the nature …

Measuring the economic impact of a war is a daunting task. Common indicators like casualties, infrastructure damages …. This paper proposes a new method to estimate the welfare impact of conflicts and remedy common data constraints in conflict …-affected environments. The method first estimates how agents regard spatial welfare differentials by voting with their feet, using pre-conflict …

In conflict zones around the world, both state and non-state actors deliver governance at local levels. This paper … makes Angolan war veterans more likely to participate in local collective action twelve years after the end of the war. This … civil wars and exposes challenges and opportunities for bottom-up approaches to post-conflict state-building and local …

nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with such an asymmetric payoff structure, and private information about military … win the war unless its expected military technology is considerably worse. Our model may thus explain why defending …

of the war. Effects are robust to including region-specific time trends, alternative conflict exposure measures, and an …This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and … Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to …

geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when …

of war; 2) given the war, what explains the reduction in economic growth in terms physical capital, labor force, human … capital, and productivity; and 3) what potential growth scenarios for Syria there could be in the aftermath of war. Estimates … of the impact of conflict point to negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth of -12 percent on average over 2011 …

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 …