Re-examining Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict

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The Economic Origins of Conflict in Africa (2017, unknown): “(2004) improves identification by using rainfall as an instrumental variable for GDP in a panel of African countries—an approach that no longer generates the same relationship with updated data (Miguel and Satyanath, 2011; Ciccone, 2011)—but does not distinguish between the mechanisms.”
What Do We Learn from the Weather? The New Climate-Economy Literature (2014, background): “On net, they estimate that the annual growth rate of world 23 Miguel and Satyanath (2011) further show in the same sample that current and lagged rainfall levels (as opposed to growth) predict income growth.”
The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal (2015, background): “…(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 set by recoding key regressor Clemens et al.…”
Extreme Weather and Civil War: Does Drought Fuel Conflict in Somalia through Livestock Price Shocks? (2014, background): “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).”