This article reviews the literature on civil conflict and development with a focus on the
socioeconomic consequences of violence and on promising policies for fostering peace. We …

Can positive social contact between members of antagonistic groups reduce prejudice and
discrimination? Despite extensive research on social contact, observational studies are …

We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on Uganda's experience during
the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, we document large causal effects …

How do nationalistic media affect animosity between ethnic groups? We consider one of
Europe's deadliest conflicts since WWII, the Serbo-Croatian conflict. We show that, after a …

We study the evolution of a social norm of “cooperation” in a dynamic environment. Each
agent lives for two periods and interacts with agents from the previous and next generations …

A fundamental problem in the field of the economics of innovation is how to explain the
sources of path-breaking innovations that support the human development and socio …

We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military
alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The model combines elements from …

Five studies across cultures involving 661 American Democrats and Republicans, 995
Israelis, and 1,266 Palestinians provide previously unidentified evidence of a fundamental …

We review the main economic models of war and conflict. These models vary in details, but
their implications are qualitatively consistent, highlighting key commonalities across a …

We construct a theory of persistent civil conflicts, where persistence is driven by the
endogenous dynamics of inter-ethnic trust and trade. In times of peace, agents belonging to …