Biased Income Shocks, Local Cleavages and Ethnic Violence: Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

• In Event: Natural Resources and Violent Conflict

Brief Overview

Negative shocks to local cash crop revenues disproportionately affect ethnic insiders, increase the salience of ethnic identities, and lead to explicitly ethnic conflict events. Other resource shocks are less systematically linked to conflict.

Author

• Yannick Immanuel Pengl, ETH Zurich