A model of the economic effects of civil war and the post-war period is developed. A key feature is the adjustment of the capital stock through capital flight. Post-war this flight can either be reversed or continue, depending partly upon how far the capital stock has adjusted to the war. The model is tested on data for all civil wars since 1960. After long civil wars the economy recovers rapid...

War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated southeastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long run i...

A common finding in the empirical civil war literature is that population size and per capita income are highly significant predictors of civil war incidence and onset. This paper shows that the common finding of population size and per capita income having a significant average effect on civil war risk in a world sample breaks down once countryand year-specific unobservables are accounted for....

McKean, also served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Ernest Shaw was born in 1873 in Michigan and made his living as an abstractor, that is, one who describes parcels of property for plot maps. Mary McKean was born in 1871 in Minnesota and made her living as a school teacher. They met in North Dakota and were married in Wahpeton in 1904. Mary Shaw was the second of their five ch...

In this paper, we present new structural results about the existence of a subgraph where the degrees of the vertices are pre-specified. Further, we use these results to prove a 16-edge-weighting version of a conjecture by Karoński, Luczak and Thomason, an asymptotic 2-edge-weighting version of the same conjecture, and a 7/8 version of Louigi’s Conjecture.

It appears that for t ≥ 6 the structure of large (t− 1)-connected graphs with no Kt minor is prohibitively complicated. Moreover, for t ≥ 8 the assumption in the above conjecture that |V (G)| is large is also necessary. In fact, Thomason has shown that there exist Θ(t √ log t)-connected graphs with no Kt-minor, but all known examples are bounded in size by a function of t. Thus, the conditions ...

The prevailing scholarly wisdom is that weak states, or resource-poor states, are the most prone to civil war. Yet many weak states never experience civil war. Why then are some weak states prone to civil war while others are not? The author offers a theory that explains how dissidents and states interact to jointly produce civil war. In sum, states that repress their citizens are the most like...

The spatial diffusion of violent conflict has been a major concern in recent literature on war. Specifically, students of international conflict have come to devote increasing attention to civil war and how various other forms of internal conflict disperse through a region. In this paper, we assess the effect of spatiality and distance on the proliferation of civil conflict and the prospects fo...

What is the relationship between civil war and terrorism? Recent attempts to unpack the similarities between these types of political violence have either focused on creating actor-based categories (terrorists vs. insurgents) and elucidating the different reasons for being one or the other or comparing and contrasting each to discern whether they have similar etiologies. In contrast to previous...

The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In particular, we examine the impacts of armed conflict in Peru, a country that experienced the actions of a...