Conflicts and Economic Development

I am currently preparing the course that I will be teaching next semester at the IIEP Master of Goethe University:  Conflicts and Economic Development.

It is actually a "block seminar", meaning students pick up a topic and I will be guiding them to write a term-paper during the semester.

This is first time I will be responsible for this course, so I am sharing the syllabus, with the hope to receive some feedback about relevant topics and papers I may be missing. My students (maybe) and I (for sure) will be very grateful to any suggestions!

Topics: Conflicts and Economic Development (MIIEP-Goethe University, Summer 2013)

General readings

• WB (2011). World Development Report 2011: Conflict, security and development
• Blattman, C. and Miguel, E. (2010). Civil war.

Economic determinants of conflicts

• Miguel, E. and Satyanath, S. and Sergenti, E. (2004). Economic shocks and civil conflict: An instrumental variables approach. 
• Djankov, S. and Reynal-Querol, M. (2010). Poverty and civil war: Revisiting the evidence. 

Ethnicity, polarization and conflict

• Esteban, J. and Ray, D. (2011). Linking conflict to inequality and polarization. 
• Esteban, J., Mayoral, L. and Ray, D. (2012). Ethnicity and conflict: An empirical study. 
• Montalvo, J. G. and Reynal-Querol, M. (2005). Ethnic polarization, potential conflict, and civil wars. 

Long run effects of conflicts

• Miguel, E. and Roland, G. (2011). The long-run impact of bombing Vietnam. 
• Davis, D. R. and Weinstein, D. E. (2002). Bones, bombs, and break points: The geography of economic activity. 
• Dell, M. (2012). Path dependence in development: Evidence from the Mexican Revolution. 

Effects of conflicts on human capital

• Shemyakina, O. (2011). The eff ect of armed conflict on accumulation of schooling: Results from Tajikistan. 
• León, G. (2012). Civil conflict and human capital accumulation: The long term effects of political violence in Peru 

Effects of conflicts on health

• Akresh, R., Bhalotra, S., Leone, M. and Osili, U. O. (2012). War and stature: Growing up during the Nigerian civil war. 
• Bundervoet, T., Verwimp, P. and Akresh, R. (2009). Health and civil war in rural Burundi. 
• Akresh, R. and Lucchetti, L. and Thirumurthy, H. (2012). Wars and child health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict. 

Refugees and displaced population

• Ibañéz, A. M. and Moya, A. (2010). Vulnerability of victims of civil conflicts: empirical evidence for the displaced population in Colombia. 
• Fiala, N. (2012). The Economic Consequences of Forced Displacement. 
• Abdel-Rahim, A., Jaimovich, D. and Ylonen, A. (2012). A socio-economic characterization of returnee households in the Nuba Mountains. 

Violent conflicts and behavior change

• Bellows, J. and Miguel, E. (2009). War and local collective action in Sierra Leone. 
• Voors, M. J., Nillesen, E. E., Verwimp, P., Bulte, E. H., Lensink, R. and Van Soest, D. P. (2012). Violent conflict and behavior: A fi eld experiment in Burundi.
• Bauer, M., Cassar, A., Chytilov a, J. and Henrich, J. (2012). Wars Enduring E ffects on the Development of Egalitarian Motivations and In-group Biases. 

Terrorism

• Abadie, A. and Gardeazabal, J. (2003). The economic costs of conflict: A case study of the Basque country. 
• Eckstein, Z. and Tsiddon, D. (2004). Macroeconomic consequences of terror: Theory and the case of Israel. 

International trade and conflicts

• Martin, P., Mayer, T. and Thoenig, M. (2008). Make trade not war?
• Blomberg, S. B. and Hess, G. D. (2006). How much does violence tax trade? 
• Glick, R. and Taylor, A. M. (2010). Collateral damage: Trade disruption and the economic impact of war. 

Commodity prices and conflict

• Bazzi, S. and Blattman, C. (2011). Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Price. 
• Bruckner, M. and Ciccone, A. (2010). International Commodity Prices, Growth and the Outbreak of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa. 
• Dube, O. and Vargas, J. (forthcoming). Commodity price shocks and civil conflict: Evidence from Colombia. 

Child soldering

• Beber, B. and Blattman, C. (2013). The logic of child soldiering and coercion. 
• Blattman, C. and Annan, J. (2010). The consequences of child soldiering.