This essay provides an economic geography perspective on the causes and consequences
of the war in eastern Ukraine. It focuses on the controversial proposition that the armed …

The armed conflict in Ukraine has caused a lot of emotions around the world. Many
countries have been involved in helping brutally attacked people, especially mothers and …

This paper investigates the contemporaneous effect of conflict on civilians living outside of
the conflict zone. Applying a multi-dimensional concept of well-being, it uses two large …

Understanding the political consequences of civil war exposure is a challenging task, given
the myriad of overlapping and at times divergent mechanisms involved. This article provides …

An emerging literature points to the heterogeneous effects of violence on social norms and
preferences in conflict-ridden societies. This article considers how responses to violence …

In this paper, we study how war affects happiness using data from the on-going conflict in
Ukraine. Using a difference-in-difference design, we find that the average level of happiness …

How does conflict affect prosocial and parochial preferences within a society? Our research
considers the case of recent violence in Donbas, Ukraine where ethnic Russian separatists …

Overshadowed by their far more numerous counterparts from Donbas, Crimean IDPs have
been under-examined and misunderstood. Relying on interviews and focus groups …

What are the consequences of being the victim of crime for political participation? Previous
studies report mixed results with respect to voter turnout, in contrast to the positive effects …

In the article, the indicators of financial and economic security of Donetsk region are
analyzed. The task of setting statistical estimation of financial and economic security of the …