Climate Shocks and Sino-nomadic Conflict

By Ying Bai, James Kai Sing Kung. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011

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Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China (2014, unknown): “Different from ecologists’research, Bai and Kung (2010) focus on Sino-Nomadic wars.”
The Distribution of Environmental Damages (2019, background): “A large number of historical analyses suggest that conflict and the breakdown of social order are regular responses to the large-scale reorganization of climate-related wealth (Kuper and Kröpelin, 2006; Yancheva et al., 2007; Haug et al., 2003; Bai and Kung, 2010; Chaney, 2013), but little is known ”
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800 (2017, unknown): “Bai and Kai-sing Kung (2011) examine the relationship between climate and conflicts between nomads and the state on the borders of premodern China.”
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict (2013, background): “2010 220–1839 China Decade Country Rain Transboundary Y Y Y – (50) Bergholt et al.”
Can Cultural Norms Reduce Conflicts? Confucianism and Peasant Rebellions in (2014, background): “There is now more or less a consensus that economic (climate) shocks tend to trigger social conflicts (Bai and Kung, 2011; Besley and Persson, 2011; Bruckner and Ciccone, 2010; Collier and Hoeffler, 1998, 2004; Miguel et al., 2004; among others).”