2014
DOI: 10.3386/w20129
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Resource Concentration and Civil Wars

Abstract: and Montpellier for helpful discussions and comments. The usual disclaimer applies. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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“…Our new indicators avoid not only all the pitfalls of endogeneity associated with earlier measurements of oil rent or income (absolute or proportional) as incisively criticized by Ross (2006Ross ( , pp. 275-277, 2012, but also some key pitfalls associated with more recent indicators on local production and relative concentration of oil (e.g., Sorens 2011;Hunziker and Cederman 2012;Morelli and Rohner 2015;Asal et al 2016). We test our empirical hypotheses with our new indicators and statistical results strongly support our hypotheses.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 52%
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“…Our new indicators avoid not only all the pitfalls of endogeneity associated with earlier measurements of oil rent or income (absolute or proportional) as incisively criticized by Ross (2006Ross ( , pp. 275-277, 2012, but also some key pitfalls associated with more recent indicators on local production and relative concentration of oil (e.g., Sorens 2011;Hunziker and Cederman 2012;Morelli and Rohner 2015;Asal et al 2016). We test our empirical hypotheses with our new indicators and statistical results strongly support our hypotheses.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 52%
“…In this section, we critically focus on two recent studies, because they look the most similar to what we report here. We first show that a study by Morelli and Rohner (2015) is theoretically unsound and statistically un-robust (our replications of their results are in Appendix D in supplementary material). While explicitly noting the useful and valid factors, mechanisms, and theses from it, we also show that a study by Asal et al (2016) too suffers from several weaknesses.…”
Section: A Critique Of Existing Theorizing and Empirical Effortsmentioning
confidence: 86%
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“…They find that conflicts are more likely to be located in the areas of a country in which natural resources are extracted. Likewise, Morelli and Rohner (2014) find in cross-national analysis that when oil is discovered in the territory of a poor group, the probability of civil war increases substantially. Furthermore, there are case-study examples linking oil and other minerals to secessionist wars.…”
Section: Civil War and Natural Resourcesmentioning
confidence: 92%