Measure for Measure: How Well Do We Measure Micro-Level Conflict Intensity?

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Rich measures of micro-level violent intensity are jey for succesfully providing insight into the legacy of civil war. Yet, the debate on how exactly conflict intensity should be measured has just started. This paper aims to fuel this awakening debate. It is demonstrated how existing and widely available data - population census data - can provide the basis for a useful measure of micro-level conflict intenisty, i.e. a fine Wartime Excess Mortality Index (WEMI). In contrast to measures that are based on news reports or data from transitional justice records, WEMI is relatively neutral to the cause of excess mortality, giving equal weight to victims belonging to the conquering and defeated party, to victims of large-scale massacres and dispersed killings, to victims of violence. The measure is illustrated for the case of Rwanda and it is shown that in a straightforward empirical application of the impact of firmed conflict on schooling different measures for micro-level conflict intensity yield strikingly different results.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: LICOS Discussion Paper ; No. 275

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
• Thema: Armed Conflict ; Micro-level conflict intensity measures ; Difference-in-Difference ; Rwanda ; Schooling ; Bürgerkrieg ; Politischer Konflikt ; Kriegsfolgen ; Messung ; Empirische Methode ; Ruanda

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Verpoorten, Marijke
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance
• (wo): Leuven
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/74994
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ