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Borderline Disorder: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa
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2020
unpublished
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary non-civil conflict in Africa. Exploiting variations across artificial regions (i.e., grids of 50x50km) within an ethnicity's historical homeland, we document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are concentrated close to historical ethnic borders. Following a theory-based instrumental variable approach, which generates a plausibly exogenous ethno-spatial partition of Africa, we find that grid
doi:10.31235/osf.io/375db
fatcat:law73fl4jjegtjnhitjeohbtea