Public Investment and Civil War in Ethnically Divided Societies: Evidence from Turkey

• In Event: Lightning Talk: Civil Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconciliation

Brief Overview

Ethnic rebellion reshapes the level and mix of public investment. Using a machine-extracted panel for 81 Turkish provinces, 1968–2020, I show conflict shifts funds toward coercive/extractive sectors, then back to human capital as violence ebbs.

Author

• Turan Keles, University of Central Florida