Does higher resource inequality between ethnic groups lead to ethnic conflict? In this paper, we empirically … increases the risk of ethnic conflict by 16 percentage points (or 0.43 standard deviations). This relationship depends on the …

We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in … results in a large and significant decline in Hindu-Muslim conflict. The average result is driven by richer states and those … curbing civil conflict. …

We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the … intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations … find that regions crossed by historical ethnic borders have 27 percentage points higher probability of conflict and 7 …

polarization between ethnic groups results in violent conflict in some cases, but not in others. After the announcement of highly …