{"id":16631,"date":"2025-07-30T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.economicas.uba.ar\/iiep\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=16631"},"modified":"2025-07-30T09:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T12:30:32","slug":"de-facto-historical-ethnic-borders-and-contemporary-conflict-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/economicas.uba.ar\/iiep\/eventos\/de-facto-historical-ethnic-borders-and-contemporary-conflict-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"(De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tribe-events-single-event-description tribe-events-content\">\n<p><strong>Seminario de Investigaci\u00f3n del IIEP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa<\/p>\n<p>Expositor | <strong>Emilio Depetris-Chauvin<\/strong> \u00a0| Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile<\/p>\n<p><b>Abstract<\/b><\/p>\n<p>We examine the persistent effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. Using variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity\u2019s historical homeland, an instrumental variable approach, and recent techniques to address non-classical measurement error, we establish a strong and sizeable positive estimate of the impact of ethnic borders on conflict. We find that both the intensive and extensive margins of conflict are higher in areas close to these borders. Our analysis uncovers several key mechanisms underlying this relationship: competition for agricultural land, population pressure, cultural similarity, and weak property rights.<\/p>\n<p>Coautor con \u00d6mer \u00d6zak (SMU)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sobre el expositor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> Emilio Depetris-Chauvin<\/strong> es profesor asociado y director de investigaci\u00f3n del Departamento de Econom\u00eda de la Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile. Es Doctor en Econom\u00eda por Brown University, Licenciado en Econom\u00eda de la Universidad de Buenos Aires y realiz\u00f3 estudios de Maestr\u00eda en Econom\u00eda en la Universidad de San Andr\u00e9s. En 2024, \u00a0fue galardonado por la <em>Econometric Society<\/em>\u00a0con el premio\u00a0<em>Mario Henrique Simonsen Lecture<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Es tambi\u00e9n editor asociado en el\u00a0<em>Journal of Comparative Economics<\/em>\u00a0e investigador en IZA.\u00a0Sus\u00a0\u00e1reas de inter\u00e9s en investigaci\u00f3n y docencia son la econom\u00eda pol\u00edtica, el desarrollo econ\u00f3mico y el crecimiento econ\u00f3mico.\u00a0Est\u00e1\u00a0interesado\u00a0especialmente\u00a0en\u00a0entender las causas y las consecuencias del conflicto y la violencia. Sus trabajos han sido publicado en el\u00a0<em>American Economic Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>AEJ: Applied Economics<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Journal of Economic Growth<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Economic Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Journal of Development Economics<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Journal of Public Economics<\/em>\u00a0y\u00a0<em>Economics Letters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lugar | FCE-UBA | Aula 239<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seminario de Investigaci\u00f3n del IIEP (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa Expositor | Emilio Depetris-Chauvin \u00a0| Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile Abstract We examine the persistent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16632,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-16631","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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