%0 Report
        %A Bhaumik, Sumon K.
%A Gang, Ira N.
%A Yun, Myeong-Su
        %T Rationality as a Barrier to Peace: Micro-Evidence from Kosovo
        %D 2007
        %8 2007 Mar
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 2682
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2682
        %X Despite a significant expansion of the literature on conflicts and fragility of states, only a few systematic attempts have been made to link the theoretical literature on social conflicts to the available micro-level information about the people who are involved in these conflicts. We address this lacuna in the literature using a household-level data set from Kosovo. Our analysis suggests that it is individually rational for competing ethnic communities, Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs, to resist a quick agreement on a social contract to share the region’s resources.
        %K micro-evidence
%K Balkans
%K economic deprivation
%K individual rationality
%K conflict
%K Kosovo