What is the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against a foreign military occupation? We … strong impact on political violence. We provide further evidence to prove that BBC radio played an important role in …

, aggression feeds on itself, and mutual fear escalates into conflict. Chicken is a model of preemption and deterrence. With …

We reconsider the relationship between oil and conflict, focusing on the location of oil resources. In a panel of 132 … countries over the period 1962-2009, we show that oil windfalls increase the probability of conflict in onshore-rich countries …, while they decrease this probability in offshore-rich countries. We use a simple model of conflict to illustrate how these …

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent … experienced a ten year long civil conflict of varying intensity. We exploit that villages affected by the conflict had the same … trend in fertility as non-affected villages prior to the onset of conflict and employ a difference-in-differences estimator …