Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,”
meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's …

During the previous decade, there has been an increased focus on the role of food security
in processes of armed conflict, both in the academic and policy communities. While the …

Conventional wisdom portrays war zones as chaotic and anarchic. In reality, however, they
are often orderly. This work introduces a new phenomenon in the study of civil war: wartime …

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and
behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to …

Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the
wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …

A common approach to evaluating robustness to omitted variable bias is to observe
coefficient movements after inclusion of controls. This is informative only if selection on …

This research explores the origins of observed differences in time preference across
countries and regions. Exploiting a natural experiment associated with the expansion of …

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Does political violence leave a lasting legacy on identities, attitudes, and behaviors? We
argue that violence shapes the identities of victims and that families transmit these effects …

We conduct face-to-face interviews with bank chief executive officers to classify 397 banks
across 21 countries as relationship or transaction lenders. We then use the geographic …