It is hard to avoid seeing ethnicity, race, or nationality wherever one looks. Differences in
education, income, and health are often patterned along ethnic or racial lines. But how do …

Much of the quantitative literature on civil wars and ethnic conflict ignores the role of the
state or treats it as a mere arena for political competition among ethnic groups. Other studies …

This article introduces GeoEPR, a geocoded version of the Ethnic Power Relations (EPR)
dataset that charts politically relevant ethnic groups across space and time. We describe the …

Many claim that national economic success depends upon cultural homogeneity. We collect
new time-series data and develop new measures of ethnic, linguistic and religious …

This article seeks to contribute to recent debates on the link between political settlements
and state building. It proposes a theoretical framework that centres on the alternative …

This paper examines the proposition that the economic performance of advanced capitalist
countries depends on their size and ethnic composition. As such it blends insights from two …

When governments are constrained by limited resources, how do they decide who will get
basic public services like electricity, potable water, education, and health care? Because …

Natural hazards are epistemically random events that can cause massive losses on human
lives. However, how natural disasters affect human lives is a matter of human resilience. Do …

What explains African protests amid rising prosperity? I show that the main cause of the
increasingly frequent urban protests that we observe in 21st-century Africa is economic …