and intensive margins of livelihoods during a conflict. In particular, it examines how insecurity affects both the choice … shifts in the composition and levels of assets are one of the primarily paths by which conflict-risk lowers welfare. …

conflict-induced restrictions to mobility. We exploit the fact that the placement of physical barriers by Israel was exogenous …

In this paper, I study how displacement of parents during a violent conflict affects investment in their children … households spend significantly less on the education of their children in primary and secondary school (20 to 35 %), while their … children are equally likely to be enrolled. The result also holds for expenditure positions like textbooks, school materials …

In this paper we estimate the causal effects of conflict on dietary energy supply in Côte d’Ivoire. To identify the … true impact of conflict, we use (1) pre-war and post-war household data, (2) the specific counts of conflict events across … the worst-hit conflict areas and individuals who are the direct victims of the conflict having lower dietary energy supply …

period reversed the adverse effects of drought in communities previously affected by the conflict. Potential mechanisms … explaining the strong joint welfare effect of conflict and drought are the failure of economic coping strategies in areas of …

Conflict is either caused by, or brings about, drastic changes in the underlying social relationships between members … of a community involved in the conflict. The conflict literature has taken note, and a growing number of studies attempt … to determine the relationship between conflict and social capital. Unfortunately, there are many problems that have …

IDPs. First, we show that measuring the impact of conflict on children using levels of conflict at the municipal level …Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict have made Colombia home to over 3 million Internally Displaced … accumulation and enrollment gaps created by being directly affected by conflict. We proxy for this direct impact by focusing on …

conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due to multiple types of potential conflicts (and hence multiple threat points) is … identified. The theory predicts conflict to be more likely when the geographical distribution of natural resources is uneven and … when a minority group has better chances to win a secessionist rather than a centrist conflict. For sharing rents, resource …

, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … data-bases used to operationalize the variables of interest and discuss the channels linking violent conflict to individual … variables that allow researchers to analyze the welfare effects of violent conflict across countries and across time. We develop …