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 …

This article reviews the literature on civil conflict and development with a focus on the
socioeconomic consequences of violence and on promising policies for fostering peace. We …

We conduct a disaggregated empirical analysis of civil conflict at the subnational level in
Africa over 1997 to 2011 using a new gridded data set. We construct an original measure of …

Climate change has drastically altered precipitation patterns across the globe and has
caused an increase in rainfall variability, including the incidence of extreme rainfall events …

There is evidence that, in some contexts, income shocks cause conflict. The literature
demonstrating this relationship uses rainfall shocks to instrument for income shocks, arguing …

We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military
alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from …

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 …

We examine the effect of rainfall shocks on dowry deaths using data from 583 Indian districts
for 2002–2007. We find that a one standard deviation decline in annual rainfall from the …

This paper highlights the importance of natural resource concentration and ethnic group
regional concentration for ethnic conflict. The existence of multiple conflict terrains (and …

Does improved communication provided by modern cellphone technology affect the rise or
fall of violence during insurgencies? A priori predictions are ambiguous; introducing …