That poorer countries face higher risk of civil war is among the most robust findings in the
literature on internal conflicts. However, we lack knowledge about whether a similar …

We estimate the effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced
data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and a total of 128 DHS survey …

Researchers in the social sciences have increasingly employed nighttime lights (NTL) data
to examine a variety of questions relating to various political, social and natural risks …

Do income shocks locally affect internal conflicts? To address this question, this paper
employs a meta-regression analysis of 2,464 infranational estimates from 64 recent …

We propose a novel estimation procedure for models with endogenous variables in the
presence of spatial correlation based on Eigenvector Spatial Filtering. The procedure, called …

Many press articles and TV news warn us about the unforeseen effects of climatic changes
on the onset and development of conflicts. Every time a new study emerges, media news …

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimated in January 2015 that 943,500
residents of Eastern Ukraine had already been displaced by the conflict, which began in …

This thesis links two topics of empirical economics: spatial econometrics and the Lasso
estimator. Spatial econometrics is concerned with methods and models accounting for …