This article reviews the existing theoretical arguments and empirical findings linking
renewable and non-renewable natural resources to the onset, intensity, and duration of …

The paper presents findings from the first-ever systematic review of the causal impact of
development aid on violence in countries affected by civil war. The review identifies 19 …

Can public interventions persistently reduce conflict? Adverse weather shocks, through their
impact on incomes, have been identified as robust drivers of conflict in many contexts. An …

In large parts of the develo** world agriculture remains a broad economic sector securing
livelihoods for large parts of the population. In the discourse on security implications of …

Understanding the connections between environmental change, migration, and conflict is
urgent as natural disasters increase in frequency and intensity. Countries that experience …

Migration is thought to cause sons of the soil conflict, particularly if natives tend to be
unemployed. Using data from India, the authors investigate the causal effect of domestic …

Prevalent counterinsurgency theories posit that small development aid projects can help
stabilize regions in conflict. A widely assumed mechanism runs through citizen attitudes …

The worldwide explosion of social welfare has been described as the “quiet revolution” of
our time. This paper analyses the expansion of social welfare in India during the early part of …

Objective Evidence on the direction of the association between sitting time and obesity is
limited. The prospective associations between baseline total sitting time and subsequent …

The neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language,
geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in …