Households in Conflict Network

Enforcing Vote-Buying: Experimental Evidence from Angola

Wolfgang Stojetz, Andrej Smirnov, Pedro C. Vincente

How do politicians enforce vote-buying agreements when ballots are secret? This asymmetric information problem lies at the heart of the vote-buying literature, yet existing research […]

A Targeted Review of the Impacts of Anticipatory Action: Evidence and Research Priorities

Dorothee Weiffen, Tilman Brück, Ghassan Baliki, Audrey Pereira, Hanna Paulose

Anticipatory Action (AA), the delivery of humanitarian assistance before a predictable shock, aims to mitigate the human and economic costs of climate-related crises before hazards […]

Nationality, Tribe and Trade: An Experiment on Intergroup Discrimination at the Sierra Leone–Guinea Border

Lame Ungwang, Neil Ferguson

Farmer–herder conflicts across West Africa are conventionally attributed to competition over land and water. Yet, identity – ethnic difference and outsider status – features prominently […]

Polling Place Matters: How Voting Location Influences Election Fraud

Robert Gonzalez, Tannishtha Ghosh, Kelly Lifchez

Research on the determinants of election fraud typically focuses on conventional factors such as election monitoring, legal punishments, and voter education. This paper examines an […]

Mobile Phones and Gender Norms: Evidence from Afghanistan

Robert Gonzalez, Seunghun Chung, Ahmad Shah Mobariz

This paper examines the impact of mobile phone expansion on gender norms in Afghanistan. We combine cell tower data from the country’s largest operator with […]

Do Military Deployments Reduce Crime? Evidence from the 2025 Washington, DC National Guard Deployment

Robert Gonzalez

The deployment of military personnel in response to urban crime has become increasingly salient in the United States. Yet the effectiveness and efficiency of such […]