Economic Shocks and Conflict: Evidence from Commodity Prices

By Samuel Bazzi, Christopher Blattman. 2014

479 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/adee7da02a60c1618da0c89d81304e48df20c4ea

Citations in the corpus

• External Shocks, Internal Shots: The Geography of Civil Conflicts (2012, unknown): “However, we cannot detect any effect on conflict incidence or onset (columns 1 to 4).35 These results are globally consistent with Bazzi and Blattman (2014).”
• Conflict, Climate, and Cells: A Disaggregated Analysis (2018, unknown): “The third strand of literature related to our work is that on the determinants of civil conflict.4 Recent papers by Bazzi and Blattman (2014) and by Berman and Couttenier (2015) explore the role of external economic shocks on conflict.”
• Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs (2015, unknown): “(91)See Weinstein (2007); Beber and Blattman (2011) for examples, or Cramer (2010) for a discussion of further evidence. (92)It was rst proposed by Kahneman and Tversky (1979). (93)Barberis (2013) (94)The most famous example is Gurr (1971).”
• Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State (2016, unknown): “Bazzi and Blattman, 2014; Miguel et al., 2004; Dube and Vargas, 2013) and municipal-level drug production in Mexico (Dube et al., 2014). 9See Freeman (1999). More recently, program evaluations show that residential job training programs reduce crime and poverty, but that these effects may be short-l”
• The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa (2017, unknown): “…discoveries and conflict, while Brückner and Ciccone (2010) find that higher export commodity prices reduce the outbreak of civil war, a result that Bazzi and Blattman (2014) find to be sensitive to updated data in a comprehensive attempt to reconcile sharply conflicting results in the…”
• Measuring Geopolitical Risk (2018, unknown): “Finally, in columns 6 and 7 we follow the approach in Bazzi and Blattman (2014), replacing the disaster dummy with a dummy equal to 1 either at the onset or at the end of a disaster, and 0 otherwise.21 Column 6 shows that disasters are more likely to start, rather than occur and persist, at times…”