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Aid targeting to fragile and conflict-affected states and implications for aid effectiveness

While significant amounts of foreign aid have been allocated to the group of so-called fragile and conflict-affected states in recent years, it is not clear whether that aid is targeted to where it is most needed. This paper extends recent work by...

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Foreign aid
  • Fragile states
Journal Article
Aid Targeting to Fragile and Conflict-Affected States and Implications for Aid Effectiveness

Part of Journal Special Issue Aid Impact and Effectiveness

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Foreign aid
  • Fragile states
Journal Article
Early life shocks and mental health

This paper provides causal evidence on early-life exposure to war on mental health status in adulthood. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the evidence indicates that early-life exposure to bombing during the American war in Vietnam has long...

  • Health outcomes
  • War
  • Mental health
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Do fences make good neighbours?

India has employed a variety of military, political, and economic measures to combat the long running insurgency in Kashmir with little evidence on what contributes to stability in the region. This paper uses a variety of tests to detect structural...

  • Conflict
  • Violence
  • Governance
Journal Article
Tax Revenue Mobilization in Conflict-affected Developing Countries

Part of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

  • Conflict
  • Taxation
  • Revenue mobilization
Working Paper
Early life shocks and mental health

This paper provides causal evidence on early-life exposure to war on mental health status in adulthood. Using an instrumental variable strategy, the evidence indicates that early-life exposure to bombing during the American war in Vietnam has long...

  • Health outcomes
  • War
  • Mental health
Journal Article
The economic effects of a counterinsurgency policy in India

Using the synthetic control method, we analyze the economic effects of a unique counterinsurgency response to the Naxalite insurgency in India. Of all the states affected by Naxalite violence, only one state, Andhra Pradesh, raised a specially...

  • Synthetic control method
  • Conflict
  • Insurgency
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Missing school years for girls: The case of the Assam insurgency
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by Prakarsh Singh March 2017

Girls in India face many challenges. From the moment they are conceived, they are less likely to be born as compared to boys. This presence of...

  • Education
  • Conflict
  • Insurgency
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Tillman Hönig presents at the European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association

Tillman Hönig, Research Associate at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting his ongong research The Legacy of Conflict: Aggregate Evidence from Sierra Leone at the 10th European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association on 30 April 2021, 2pm CEST. His paper...

30 April 2021
Online, Denmark
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Policy panel on war and reconstruction in Ukraine
9 May 2023
The crypt of Helsinki Cathedral, Kirkkokatu 18, Helsinki, Finland
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Workshop
Research workshop on war and reconstruction in Ukraine

From 8–9 May 2023, UNU-WIDER holds a research workshop bringing together an international group of researchers with expertise in conflict and peacebuilding to discuss new research that can support policymakers’ discussions on the stabilization...

8 May 2023 – 9 May 2023
UNU-WIDER, Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, Helsinki, Finland
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Working Paper
Secession and social polarization

Does secessionism lead to social polarization? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less understood. We argue that...

  • Catalonia
  • Conflict
  • Independence movements
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Mothers at peace: post-conflict fertility and United Nations peacekeeping

Armed conflict can shape reproductive behaviour as high child mortality and a lack of health services lead to higher fertility rates. Yet women often postpone childbearing in expectation of better times. Given the theoretical ambiguity, the extant...

  • Human fertility
  • Conflict
  • Peace
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Understanding Somalia’s social contract and state-building efforts

Building on a World Bank regional study in Africa aiming at measuring social contracts concepts and within the framework of reflecting on future donor interventions, this paper applies social contracts measurement and complements with qualitative...

  • Somalia
  • Social contract
  • Security
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The legacy of church–state conflict

A burgeoning literature on repression against civilians argues that exposure to violence changes victims’ identities by strengthening attachment to the in-group and creates downstream effects for political and social behaviour that persist across...

  • Elites
  • Repression
  • Voting behaviour
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The loser’s long curse: electoral consequences of a class conflict

This paper presents evidence of political legacies of exposure to a violent class conflict over 100 years. We revisit the Finnish Civil War of 1918 and first trace out the impact of local conflict exposure on electoral outcomes over a quarter-century...

  • Civil conflict
  • Class
  • Elections
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