Ten years after the onset of the Arab Spring, the Middle East and North Africa are torn between two visions of progress: a democratic one…
We conduct a disaggregated empirical analysis of civil conflict at the subnational level in Africa over 1997 to 2011 using a new gridded…
This paper studies kinship band networks as capital market institutions. Membership in a community where individuals are dynastically…
This paper investigates the determinants of group membership, and in particular the effect of income inequality on individual incentives to…