Since 2001, hundreds of academic studies have examined the “political resource curse,”
meaning the claim that natural resource wealth tends to adversely affect a country's …

Foreign aid is one of the most important policy tools that rich countries use to help poor
countries improve population well-being and facilitate economic and institutional …

We study the effect of US food aid on conflict in recipient countries. Our analysis exploits
time variation in food aid shipments due to changes in US wheat production and cross …

Ethnic favoritism is seen as antithetical to development. This paper provides credible
quantification of the extent of ethnic favoritism using data on road building in Kenyan districts …

Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress,
Reader's Edition Page 1 Creating a Learning Society KENNETH J. ARROW LECTURE SERIES …

Higher national incomes are correlated with political stability. Is this relationship causal? We
test three theories linking income to conflict with new data on export price shocks. Price …

" Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest
barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being …

This article investigates the role of mass media in times of conflict and state-sponsored mass
violence against civilians. We use a unique village-level data set from the Rwandan …

The central question in taxation and development is:“how does a government go from
raising around 10% of GDP in taxes to raising around 40%?” This paper looks at the …

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 …