We test whether living through conflict in childhood changes political beliefs and engagement. We combine data on the …. Our results suggest that at the population level in Africa, conflict does not alter political beliefs, though the most …

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 …

This paper investigates the effect of conflict on firms' output value and input misallocation in the context of … over time across districts experiencing differential changes in conflict intensity. We show how conflict diminishes the … domestically produced materials for imported ones. We also empirically identify the relative amount of conflict-induced input …

, 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 …

end of the conflict in eight villages to describe the characteristics of the returnees vis-a-vis those of non … conflict and are less involved in the production of cash crops. Even though returnees seem to face worse economic conditions …

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 … IDPs. First, we show that measuring the impact of conflict on children using levels of conflict at the municipal level …

households in the conflict affected regions. In those regions, wealthier households do not reduce allocation to low-risk low … by conflict. …