Conflict between and within countries can have lasting health and economic consequences, but identifying such effects … conflict's geographic extent and timing and the exposure of different birth cohorts to the fighting. The unique survey data … negative impacts due to conflict. Effects are robust to including region-specific time trends, alternative conflict exposure …

conjecture that increasing female property rights increased conflict within household and this increased conflict resulted in … with asymmetric information and costly conflict is consistent with these findings. …

We examine the causal impact of the 2002–2007 civil conflict in Côte d'Ivoire on children's health using household … surveys collected before, during, and after the conflict, and information on the exact location and date of conflict events … children's exposure to the conflict. We find that children from regions more affected by the conflict suffered significant …

conflicts in contiguous states, on international trade. Our empirical findings—based on different measures of regional conflict … constructed using alternate definitions of contiguity and types of conflict for 145 countries over 1948–2006—reveal a significant … directly involved in any conflict. The impact increases with conflict duration, and is persistent—on average, it takes …

Based on evidence linking natural resources to civil conflict, this paper studies two armed groups fighting to control … a resource and possibly a second prize. Labor is used in the agricultural, resource extraction and conflict sectors, and … the groups also buy a capital input to conflict subject to the constraint that capital spending cannot exceed resource …

In this paper we analyze the impact of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on child labor and school attendance of …