Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: An Instrumental Variables Approach

By Edward Miguel, S. Satyanath, E. Sergenti. Journal of Political Economy, 2004

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Subfields: Demography, Development, Sociology and Political Science

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The innovative performance of firms in heterogeneous environments: the interplay between external knowledge and internal absorptive capacities (2018, background): “Second, while unobserved firm-level fixed effects can be efficiently controlled for by means of a within transformation in a linear context (see for example Miguel et al., 2004), the same approach is not applicable to non-linear estimation techniques.”
Poverty and Violent Conflict: A Micro-Level Perspective on the Causes and Duration of Warfare (2009, neutral): “Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2003) find that a negative growth shock of five percentage points increases the likelihood of conflict by one-half in the following year in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Weather Shocks, Sweet Potatoes and Peasant Revolts in Historical China (2014, neutral): “1”
Environmental changes and violent conflict (2012, background): “14 Ciccone (2011) re-evaluates the Miguel et al (2004) findings using rainfall levels instead of rainfall growth rates.”
Ecology, trade and states in pre-colonial Africa (2014, background): “Further, fluctuations in rainfall over time may lead to conflict (Miguel et al., 2004), which could directly affect state formation.”
The Geography of the International System: The CShapes Dataset (2010, background): “This also holds for rainfall, which some researchers have suggested is a key influence on economic growth in rain-fed agricultural societies, with the advantage that it can be assumed to be exogenous to conflict and hence be helpful as an instrument in assessing the effects of growth shocks on confl”
Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments (2020, background): “Droughts can also exacerbate conflicts (Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti, 2004), even through channels other than income (Sarsons, 2015).”
Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars (2005, methodology): “Edward Miguel et al. (2004) have argued that the measurement of the impact of GDP growth on civil wars is complicated since there are endogeneity issues.”
Contest functions : theoretical foundations and issues in estimation (2013, background): “As highlighted in the economic literature (e.g., see Miguel et al., 2004), endogeneity generates inconsistent and biased estimates of the unknown parameters, which adversely affects the explanatory power of the contest models.”