We investigate the empirical impact of violence as compared to other trade impediments on trade flows. Our analysis is … from the Rose [2004] dataset, the ITERATE dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We … of terrorism, as well as internal and external conflict is equivalent to as much as a 30 percent tariff on trade. This is …

provide a proxy for counter-insurgency efforts by the government. We show that the increase in violence is primarily driven by … organized political violence. We use plausible exogenous variation in the number of armed groups in Pakistan, by exploiting the … violence. By combining different data sources and implementing a new approach to deal with potential double-counting, we …

The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This … violent events in African countries and sub-national regions. The effect pertains to social violence and unrest, not civil war …

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using … with an increase in police reports of crimes against women of 29 percent, a result driven by domestic violence. This … appears to reflect reporting rather than incidence as we find no changes in femicide or in survey-reported domestic violence …

Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers … could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households' welfare and productivity. However, cash transfers may also … on conflict in Niger. The analysis relies on the large-scale randomization of a government-led cash transfer program …

We investigate situations in which players make costly contributions as group members in a group conflict, and at the … asymmetry and complementarity in members'efforts, and analyze how each group's internal conflict in-fluences its chance of … winning in the external conflict. We find that a more symmetric group may expend more effort in external conflict when the …

nations, as in a strategic game of international conflict handing over military spending decisions to citizens who face a …

conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers … drought-induced conflict. One key mechanism is that insured pastoralists travel less far away from their ancestral homelands … to mitigate conflict beyond difficult institutional reforms and raises the question of how governments can support the …

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased … 27% of the pre-NAFTA mean. These results cannot be explained by changes in worker's opportunity costs of using violence …