Conflict

Opportunity costs reduce state-based conflict while rapacity increases non-state conflict. Boom-period growth reduced insurgencies by 2.65pp but intensified territorial competition by 0.49pp.

Spatial sorting explains 100% of conflict migrants’ economic advantages. Dual selection: wealth determines who stays, education determines who succeeds among migrants.

Studies how exposure to terrorism during Peru’s internal war (1980-2000) affected long-term regional economic development.

Explores the relationship between nighttime light intensity and violence patterns globally, with focus on intentional homicide rates and deaths in armed conflicts.