Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: A Comment

By A. Ciccone. 2011

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Subfields: Development, Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Extreme Weather and Civil War: Does Drought Fuel Conflict in Somalia through Livestock Price Shocks? (2014, unknown): “Since the livestock sector 2 The robustness of Miguel’s, Satyanath’s, and Sergenti’s (2004) estimation results have been subject to an intense debate between Ciccone (2011) and Miguel and Satyanath (2011).”
• What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature (2014, unknown): “Ciccone (2011) argues that the relationship between rainfall and conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa appears weaker when the data is extended to 2009, though Miguel and Satyanath (2011) note in reply that the first-stage between rainfall and economic growth also does not appear to hold in the 2000-2009 p”
• The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal (2015, background): “…(2001) Alternative data set Özer Ballı and Sørensen (2010, 2013) Rajan and Zingales (1998), Easterly et al. (2004), etc. De-meaning interaction term Ciccone (2011) Miguel et al. (2004), Miguel and Satyanath (2011) New specifications Albouy (2012) Acemoğlu et al. (2001, 2012) Different data…”
• CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT (2017, background): “Indeed, Ciccone (2011) finds no robust link between rainfall levels (or shocks) and civil conflict. www.annualreviews.org • Conflict and Development 271 Bó & Dal Bó (2011), and Miguel et al. (2004),8 emphasizes the fact that conflict and production are often alternative choices.”
• Environmental changes and violent conflict (2012, background): “Also, Brückner and Ciccone (2010) do not find any significant effect of rainfall growth on civil war onset.”
• Demand, supply, and restraint: Determinants of domestic water conflict and cooperation (2014, unknown): “…significant effects does not agree on the direction of the relationship (for contrasting examples, see Theisen, 2008; Burke et al., 2009; Buhaug, 2010; Ciccone, 2011; Fjelde and von Uexkull, 2012; Hendrix and Salehyan, 2012; Koubi et al., 2012; Raleigh and Kniveton, 2012; Wischnath and Buhaug,…”
• Feeding unrest (2014, background): “Ciccone (2011), however, questioned the finding and mechanism.”
• Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China (2014, unknown): “Second, recent research has shown that weather shocks affected conflict (Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti 2004) and other political outcomes such as democratic transition (Brückner and Ciccone 2011).”
• Transparency, Reproducibility, and the Credibility of Economics Research (2018, unknown): “Dewald, Thursby, and Anderson (1986) attempted to replicate nine empirical papers, and despite extensive assistance from the original authors, they were often unable to reproduce the papers’ published results. Little changed for a long time after the publication of this landmark article. A decade la”