We have new #HiCN Working Papers to share!
If you don’t already know: The Households in Conflict Network brings together academics and pushes for more research on micro-level effects of violent conflict.
As part of that effort, we host a Working Paper Series and in this thread we’ll show you the newest additions!
#HiCN Working Paper #382 looks at the impact of cash transfers on #conflict in Niger, with evidence from 4000 villages across 7 years.
The results suggest that the cash transfers did not (as hoped) result in greater pacification. Actually (if anything), they may have contributed to a short-term rise in conflict events, as rebel groups (like #BokoHaram) could have incentives to sabotage government programs.
Check out the full paper by Patrick Premand and @dominicrohner https://hicn.org/working-paper/382/
In #HiCN Working Paper #383, Lelys Dinarte-Diaz et al. look at rebel #governance and #development in El Salvador.
During the civil war, guerillas displaced state authorities and implemented their own informal institutions that encouraged autonomy and self-sufficiency from the state and external actors.
Over the last 20 years, those areas have experienced worse economic outcomes and the paper suggests that this is connected to lasting distrust in out-groups.
Full paper: https://hicn.org/working-paper/383/
And the newest #HiCN Working Paper is co-authored by Wim Naudé, Ernesto Amorós and @tilmanbrueck and investigates the relationship between state-based conflict and entrepreneurship. Their analysis supports two hypotheses:
1. state-based conflict has a negative association with productive and opportunity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship, and
2. a positive association with unproductive and necessity-motivated forms of entrepreneurship
You can find HiCN WP #384 here: https://hicn.org/working-paper/384/
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