In this review, we examine the links between economic development and social conflict. By
economic development, we refer broadly to aggregate changes in per capita income and …

We investigate the incidence of early warfare among foragers and farmers in prehistory. Our
focus is specifically on conflict over land. Food is produced using inputs of labor and land …

This paper formalizes the principle that persecution power of government may generate
violent contests over it. We show that this principle yields a large set of theoretical insights …

States can use various negative incentive schemes against non-state morality groups. When
the strength of this pressure is sufficiently strong to be labeled malignant, these measures …

I examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant
majority ethno-linguistic conventions, for income distribution and ethnic conflict. I develop a …

When do persecuted ethnic minority groups choose to assimilate into the dominant majority
group, rather than differentiate from it, and how do states respond? We argue that any …

Traditional frameworks for the study of social conflict suggest that economic disparities
naturally provoke class-based antagonism. Yet much contemporary conflict emerges across …

The paper provides a theory that explains in what type of societies class conflicts are less
frequent than ethnic conflicts. We posit the problem as one of alliance formation. In our …

This dissertation project focuses on how prejudiced beliefs and discriminatory behaviour
can arise and persist as the product of incentives that individuals face as stable features of …

An individual is characterized by several ascriptive markers like race, religion, language and
so on. In this paper, we provide a general theory of how one dimension of identity, or a …