The Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, in association with Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS)

TRiSSThe Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, in association with Trinity Research in Social Sciences (TRiSS), is pleased to invite you to a talk by Professor Andrea Guariso (TCD):

"Rainfall Inequality, Political Power, and Ethnic Conflict in Africa"

 

"Does higher resource inequality between ethnic groups lead to ethnic conflict? This seminar presents a paper which empirically investigates this question by constructing a new measure of inequality using rainfall on ethnic homelands during the plant-growing seasons"