Baten, Joerg; Mumme, Christina - In: European Journal of Political Economy 32 (2013) C, pp. 56-79
We test for the influence of absolute and relative deprivation — proxied by anthropometric methods — on civil war risk. A comprehensive height data set allows us to go back to 1816 for a global sample. We measure absolute deprivation using human stature and we use height inequality within...