Oil and Conflict: What Does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?

By Anca M. Cotet, K. Tsui. 2010

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This Mine is Mine! How Minerals Fuel Conflicts in Africa (2015, unknown): “While Lei and Michaels ( 2014 ) find a positive effect of oil discoveries on conflict, Cotet and Tsui ( 2013 ) find that oil discoveries no longer show an effect on conflict when controlling for country fixed effects.”
Natural Resources and Violent Conflict (2014, background): “More recently, Cotet & Tsui (2013) also find little support for the idea that “greedy forward looking rebels [can] sell future exploitation rights.””
Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability (2016, unknown): “Besley and Persson (2011), Lei and Michaels (2014), Cotet and Tsui (2013), and Dube and Vargas (2013), among others, have looked at resource windfalls and civil war and political violence; Deaton and Miller (1995) and Andersen and Aslaksen (2013) at incumbents’ survival; Egorov, Guriev, and Sonin…”
The Resource Curse Exorcised: Evidence from a Panel of Countries (2015, background): “Cotet & Tsui (2013) argue that for most oil-producing countries, the most significant oil discoveries are concentrated over a few years.”
Extending the concept of the resource curse: natural resources and public spending on health (2014, background): “The association between natural resources and the occurrence of conflict however, is still subject of debate (Basedau and Lay, 2009; Brunnschweiler and Bulte, 2009; Cotet and Tsui, 2013).”
Does Oil Wealth Affect Democracy in Africa (2014, unknown): “Appendix 1- Data, Data Sources and Country List The data set is from Cotet and Tsui (2013), with the following sources: Oil Data: Log (Oil Wealth per capita) represents (the log of) oil reserves per capita Data sets are from the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO), BP Statistical…”
Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts (2011, methodology): “A closely related study in this respect is contemporaneous work by Cotet and Tsui (2013), which concludes that while the defense burden increases following oil discoveries, conflict does not increase significantly. There are several differences in the implementation of their paper and ours. First, o”