to conflict and civil war. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by … individuals. We test for this link between segmentary lineage and conflict across 145 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa …-documented relationship between adverse rainfall shocks and conflict within Africa is only found within segmentary lineage societies …

We present evidence that shared codes, religious beliefs, ethnicity - cultural proximity - between lenders and … religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces exogenous matching …

American politics have been characterized by a high degree of partisan conflict in recent years. Combined with a … this end, I construct a novel high- frequency indicator of partisan conflict. The partisan conflict index (PCI) uses a … may help explain the slow recovery observed since the 2007 recession ended. Partisan conflict is also associated with …

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 …

century. Since kinship rules varied by caste, language, religion and region, we construct sex-ratios by these categories at …

blacks but smaller effects for whites. Overall, our results are consistent with the view that religion provides an …

Religion plays an important role in the lives of many Americans, but there is relatively little study by economists of … market density, or the share of the population in an area which is of an individual's religion. I make use of the fact that …