distribution of culturally diverse groups affects the outcome. To understand why ethnic diversity affects conflict and economic …

Social conflict and slow growth are features of many developing economies. This paper considers the role institutions … of property rights and conflict management can play in both achieving prosperity and mitigating conflict in these … economies. We study how introducing conflict over economic distribution into an otherwise standard model of growth can shape …

We study the effect of a corruption reflection index on internal conflict in Iran using a novel measure of corruption …

In this chapter, we review the recent literature on conflict and appropriation. Allowing for the possibility of … conflict, which amounts to recognizing the possibility that property rights are not perfectly and costlessly enforced … technologies of conflict. A central objective of this research is to identify the effects of conflict on economic outcomes: the …

, with their effectiveness in curbing hostilities being greater in areas where conflict is active closer in time to the …

on 1,511 projects to 50 African countries. We use this database to extend previous research on aid and conflict, which … withdrawals of "traditional" aid no longer induce conflict in the presence of sufficient alternative funding from China. Our … better understand the link between aid and conflict. …

This paper provides a broad empirical analysis of the determinants of post-conflict economic transitions across the … risk of conflict recurrence as an explanatory variable in the growth regression, because post-conflict countries have a … domestic factors, including the estimated probability of conflict recurrence, as well as a range of external variables …

dataset for terrorist events, and datasets of external and internal conflict. We explore these data with cross-sectional and … that associated with either external wars or internal conflict. As well, terrorism is associated with a redirection of …