IZA Discussion Papers

published in: Paolo Buonanno, Paolo Vanin, and Juan Vargas (eds). A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime, Elgar Modern Guides, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022, 184-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14871

Internal versus External Rent-Seeking with In-Group Inequality and Public Good Provision

Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14776

How Civilian Attitudes Respond to the State's Violence: Lessons from the Israel- Gaza Conflict

Amit Loewenthal, Sami H. Miaari, Alexei Abrahams

published in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2023, 40 (4), 441 - 463

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14707

Water Scarcity and Social Conflict

Kerstin Unfried, Krisztina Kis-Katos, Tilman Poser

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022, 113, 102633

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14647

The Effect of 3.6 Million Refugees on Crime

Murat Güray Kirdar, Ivan Lopez Cruz, Betül Türküm

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 568 - 582

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14608

Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating

Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová, Gerald Roland

published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (652), 1626–1640

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14579

Does Violent Conflict Affect Labor Supply of Farm Households? The Nigerian Experience

John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2021, 50 (3), 401 - 435.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14536

The Impact of Sleep Restriction on Interpersonal Conflict Resolution and the Narcotic Effect

David L. Dickinson, David M. McEvoy, David Bruner

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 71-90.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14265

Aid and Radicalization: The Case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza

Amit Loewenthal, Sami H. Miaari, Anke Hoeffler

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (8), 1187–1212.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14191

Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia

Jakub Grossmann, Štepán Jurajda, Felix Roesel

published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2024, 68 (2), 751-766

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14073

Democratisation under Diversity: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities

Anirban Mitra, Sarmistha Pal

published as 'Ethnic Diversity, Social Norms and Elite Capture: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia' in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 947 - 996

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14034

Terrorism and Voting Behavior: Evidence from the United States

Leonardo Baccini, Abel Brodeur, Sean Nossek, Eran Shor

published in: Research and Politics, 2021, 8 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14023

Ethnic Divisions and the Onset of Civil Wars in Syria

Salah Abosedra, Ali Fakih, Nathir Haimoun

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13834

Captivating News in Colombia

Juan P. Aparicio, Michael Jetter

published as 'Captivating news: Media attention and FARC kidnappings' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 202, 69-81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13775

Dancing with the Populist: New Parties, Electoral Rules and Italian Municipal Elections

Massimo Bordignon, Tommaso Colussi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13763

A Subscription vs. Appropriation Framework for Natural Resource Conflicts

Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: A. Markandya and D. Rübbelke (eds.), Climate and Development; World Scientific, 2021

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13736

Borderline Disorder: (De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13563

Obstacles on the Road to School: The Impacts of Mobility Restrictions on Educational Performance

Sami H. Miaari, Ines Lee

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13511

Explaining Post-Cold-War Civil Conflict among 17 Billion Models: The Importance of History and Religion

Michael Jetter, Rafat Mahmood, Christopher F. Parmeter, Andres Ramirez Hassan

published as 'Post-Cold War civil conflict and the role of history and religion: A stochastic search variable selection approach' in: Economic Modelling, 2022, 114, 105907

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13090

Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes: Evidence from Europe

Giovanni Peri, Daniel I. Rees, Brock Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13069

The Heterogeneous Effects of Conflict on Education: A Spatial Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kerstin Unfried, Krisztina Kis-Katos

published in: Journal of Peace Research, 2023, 60 (6), 968-984.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12911

Habemus Papam? Polarization and Conflict in the Papal States

Francisco J. Pino, Jordi Vidal-Robert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12728

The Economics of Mass Shootings

Abel Brodeur, Hasin Yousaf

published online as 'On the Economic Consequences of Mass Shootings' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 27 September 2022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12635

Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval

Abel Brodeur, Taylor Wright

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 119-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12570

Violent Conflict Exposure in Nigeria and Economic Welfare

John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12342

Anti-Elite Politics and Emotional Reactions to Socio-Economic Problems. Experimental Evidence on 'Pocketbook Anger' from France, Germany, and the United States

Paul Marx

published in: British Journal of Sociology, 2020, 71 (4), 608-624.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12318

Military Intervention via Drone Strikes

Rafat Mahmood, Michael Jetter

published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 787-811

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12016

Touch Thee Not: Group Conflict, Caste Power, and Untouchability in Rural India

Indraneel Dasgupta, Sarmistha Pal

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2021, 49 (2), 442-466

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11944

Anti-Social Behavior in Groups

Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Dagmara Celik Katreniak, Julie Chytilová, Lubomir Cingl, Tomáš Želinský

revised version published as 'Nastiness in Groups' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024, 22 (5), 2075–2107

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11901

Civil War, Natural Disaster and Risk Preferences: Evidence from Sri Lankan Twins

Nathan Kettlewell, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Sisira Siribaddana, Athula Sumathipala, Agnieszka Tymula, Helena Zavos, Nicholas Glozier

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11733

Education and Labor Market Consequences of Student Protests in Late 1970s and the Subsequent Military Coup in Turkey

Ahmet Ozturk, Semih Tumen

revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 12:04

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11690

Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff

Apsara Karki Nepal, Martin Halla, Steven Stillman

published online in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 18 December 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11597

Everybody's a Victim? Global Terror, Well-Being and Political Attitudes

Alpaslan Akay, Olivier B. Bargain, Ahmed Elsayed

published as 'Global terror, well-being and political attitudes' in: European Economic Review, 2020, 123, Article 103394

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11595

Voting as a War of Attrition

Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 167, 104-121, 2019.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11554

The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times

Emilio Depetris-Chauvin, Ömer Özak

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, 25 (3), 297-340

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11534

Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring

Olivier B. Bargain, Delphine Boutin, Hugues Champeaux

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102379

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11487

Diversity and Conflict

Cemal Eren Arbatli, Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor, Marc Klemp

published in: Econometrica, 2020, 88 (2), 727-797

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11301

Job Market Outcomes of IDPs: The Case of Georgia

Karine Torosyan, Norberto Pignatti, Maksym Obrizan

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 800-820

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11244

War of the Waves: Radio and Resistance during World War II

Stefano Gagliarducci, Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato, Francesco Sobbrio, Guido Tabellini

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12 (4), 1–38

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11215

Beyond Conflict: Long-Term Labour Market Integration of Internally Displaced Persons in Post-Socialist Countries

Artjoms Ivlevs, Michail Veliziotis

published in: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2018, 105, 131-146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11189

The Long-Run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900

Murat Iyigun, Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qian

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10998

Decolonization, Property Rights and Language Conflicts

Indraneel Dasgupta, Ranajoy Guha Neogi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10937

Violent Conflict and Breastfeeding: The Case of Iraq

Vidya Diwakar, Michael Malcolm, George S Naufal

published in: Conflict and Health, 2019, 13, 61(2019)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10928

Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions

Michael A. Clemens

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 124, 103355

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10881

Between-Group Contests over Group-Specific Public Goods with Within-Group Fragmentation

Indraneel Dasgupta, Ranajoy Guha Neogi

published in: Public Choice, 2018, 174 (3-4), 315-334.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10859

An Injury to One Is an Injury to All: Terrorism's Spillover Effects on Bilateral Trade

Cong S. Pham, Chris Doucouliagos

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10778

Learning to Participate in Politics: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Dozie Okoye, Mutlu Yuksel

revised version published as 'Social Unrest in Impressionable Years and the Formation of Political Attitudes: Evidence from Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany' in Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 184-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10708

Terrorism and the Media: The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks

Michael Jetter

published as 'The inadvertent consequences of al-Qaeda news coverage' in: European Economic Review, 2019, 119, 391-410

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10475

Winter is Coming: The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900

Murat Iyigun, Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qian

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10417

Minority Salience and Political Extremism

Tommaso Colussi, Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 237-271

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10390

Economics of Civil Conflict: Evidence from the Punjab Insurgency

Prakarsh Singh

published in: Journal of Punjab Studies, 2015, 22 (2), 231 - 248

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10385

Inter-ethnic Fertility Spillovers and the Role of Forward-looking Behavior: Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia

Emily A. Beam, Slesh Shrestha

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10331

What's in a Name in a War

Štepán Jurajda, Dejan Kovač

published in: Journal of Population Economics 2021, 34 (1), 1-33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10274

Diasporas and Conflict

Fabio Mariani, Marion Mercier, Thierry Verdier

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18(4), 761 -793

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10168

The Impact of Fundamentalist Terrorism on School Enrolment: Evidence from North-Western Pakistan, 2004-09

Sarah Khan, Andrew Seltzer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9997

Can War Foster Cooperation?

Michal Bauer, Christopher J. Blattman, Julie Chytilová, Joseph Henrich, Edward Miguel, Tamar Mitts

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30(3), 249-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9996

Peace, Terrorism, or Civil Conflict? Understanding the Decision of an Opposition Group

Michael Jetter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9870

The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (3), 547 - 599

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9762

The Formation of Networks in the Diaspora

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1136-1153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9743

Business in Genocide: Understanding and Avoiding Complicity

Nora Stel, Wim Naudé

published in: Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer (eds.), Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Preventions, Oxford University Press, 2016, 591–612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9731

Identity Conflict with Cross-Border Spillovers

Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2020, 31 (7), 786-809

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9701

Bread and Bullets

George A. Akerlof, Dennis J. Snower

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 58-71

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9526

Terrorism and Employment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks

Abel Brodeur

published as 'The Effect of Terrorism on Employment and Consumer Sentiment: Evidence from Successful and Failed Terror Attacks' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 246-82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9522

Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India

Sriya Iyer, Anand Shrivastava

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 131, 104-122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9384

Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations

Lata Gangadharan, Nikos Nikiforakis, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published as 'Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 143-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9336

An Experimental Study of Voting with Costly Delay

Maksymilian Kwiek, Helia Marreiros, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 140, 23-26.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9159

A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies

Dripto Bakshi, Indraneel Dasgupta

published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2018, 29 (2), 147-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8953

Communication and Coordination in a Two-Stage Game

Tjaša Bjedov, Thierry Madies, Marie Claire Villeval

revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (3), 1519–1540.