The Long-run Effects of Agricultural Productivity on Conflict, 1400-1900 Murat Iyigun, Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qian Abstract This paper provides evidence of the long-run effects of a permanent increase in agricultural productivity on conflict. We construct a newly digitized and geo-referenced dataset of battles in Europe, the Near East and North Africa covering the period be- […]
BREAD Working Paper No. 554, January 2019
Does Information Break the Political Resource Curse? Experimental Evidence from Mozambique Alex Armand, Alexander Coutts, Pedro C. Vicente, Inês Vilela Abstract Natural resources can lead to the deterioration of public policies through corruption, as well as to civil conflict. Our paper tests this political resource curse through a large-scale field experiment following the dissemination of […]