Economic shocks and civil conflict at the regional level

Roland Hodler; Paul Raschky

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.027

Economic shocks and civil conflict at the regional level

Roland Hodler, Paul Raschky

Department of Economics

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Abstract

We study the effects of economic shocks on civil conflict at the subnational level using a panel dataset of 5689 administrative regions from 53 African countries with yearly observations from 1992 to 2010. We find that economic shocks, measured by night time light intensity and instrumented by lagged rainfall levels and droughts, increase the probability of civil conflict.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	530 - 533
Number of pages	4
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	124
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.027
Publication status	Published - 2014

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