Amid the global resurgence of nationalist governments, what do we know about
nationalism? This review takes stock of political science debates on nationalism to critically …

I review evidence that individuals associate themselves—or identify—with groups in two
fundamental ways: ingroup bias and conformity to group norms. The evidence spans many …

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since
independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 …

We investigate the role of deeply rooted pre‐colonial ethnic institutions in shaping
comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the …

Can digital information and communication technology foster mass political mobilization?
We use a novel georeferenced data set for the entire African continent between 1998 and …

It is one of the most pressing and controversial questions of our time--vehemently debated,
steeped in ideology, profoundly divisive. Who should be allowed to immigrate and who not …

Nighttime lights, calculated from weather satellite recordings, are increasingly used by social
scientists as a proxy for economic activity or economic development in subnational regions …

As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of
history on the continent's economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on …

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd<?
pag\break?> livestock—ie transhumant pastoralists—in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant …

We combine georeferenced data on mining extraction of 14 minerals with information on
conflict events at spatial resolution of 0.5 o× 0.5 o for all of Africa between 1997 and 2010 …