Economic shocks and civil conflict: A comment

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• dc.contributor.author Ciccone, Antonioca
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-26T12:08:01Z
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• dc.date.issued 2008-08-01
• dc.date.modified 2017-07-23T02:12:17Z
• dc.description.abstract Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti (2004) argue that lower rainfall levels and negative rainfall shocks increase conflict risk in Sub-Saharan Africa. This conclusion rests on their finding of a negative correlation between conflict in t and rainfall growth between t-1 and t-2. I argue that this finding is driven by a positive correlation between conflict in t and rainfall levels in t-2. If lower rainfall levels or negative rainfall shocks increased conflict, one might have expected MSS s finding to reflect a negative correlation between conflict in t and rainfall levels in t-1. In the latest data, conflict is unrelated to rainfall.
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• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1127
• dc.identifier.citation American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3 (4), 215-227, 2011
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/531
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1127
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• dc.subject.keyword transitory shocks
• dc.subject.keyword mean reversion
• dc.subject.keyword rainfall
• dc.subject.keyword civil conflict.
• dc.subject.keyword Macroeconomics and International Economics
• dc.title Economic shocks and civil conflict: A commentca
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