Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia

By Oeindrila Dube, Juan F. Vargas. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. F. van der ploeg
2. S. Poelhekke
3. Joan Esteban
4. Eoin F. McGuirk
5. Debraj Ray
6. Marshall Burke
7. Andreas Kotsadam
8. Patricia Justino

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Debraj Ray
2. Joan Esteban
3. F. van der ploeg
4. Patricia Justino
5. S. Poelhekke
6. Anirban Mitra
7. Mathias Thoenig
8. Andreas Kotsadam

In Soil Science

1. Tilman Brück
2. Patricia Justino
3. Erwin H. Bulte
4. Philip Verwimp
5. Joan Esteban
6. Debraj Ray
7. Jeannie Annan
8. Jean-François Maystadt

Citations in the corpus

• Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State (2016, background): “2There is evidence that weather and trade shocks intensify ongoing wars (e.g. Bazzi and Blattman, 2014; Miguel et al., 2004; Dube and Vargas, 2013) and municipal-level drug production in Mexico (Dube et al.”
• Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India (2014, positive): “Dube and Vargas (2013) make a parallel observation in the context of resource shocks and violence in Colombia.”
• A Model of Ethnic Conflict (2011, result): “…supports this intuitive speculation.17 We note that a decline in conflict which is connected to increased wealth would be in line with several empirical studies (see, e.g., Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004) for sub-Saharan Africa or Dube and Vargas (2008) for the case of coffee in Colombia).”
• Dutch Disease or Agglomeration? The Local Economic Effects of Natural Resource Booms in Modern America (2018, neutral): “[24] Dube, Oeindrila, and Juan Vargas (2013).”
• African Mining, Gender, and Local Employment (2014, background): “Exploiting within-country variation leads to more robust causal claims (e.g., Angrist and Kugler, 2008; Buhaug and Rød, 2006; De Luca et al., 2012; Dube and Vargas, 2013 on conflicts, Wilson, 2012 on sexual risk taking behavior in Zambia’s copper belt; and Aragon and Rud, 2013b on the local economy…”
• The microeconomics of violent conflict (2019, background): “, 2011), and how different actors control economic resources (Dube and Vargas, 2013).”
• The Resource Curse and its Potential Reversal (2013, background): “Their theory receives empirical support from Dube and Vargas (2009) who contrast conflict propensities in coffee and oil intensive regions respectively in Colombia when income from the respective commodities fluctuate.”