Inequality and Conflict Intensification in Mandate Palestine
2017/11/14
研討會日期 : 2017-11-14
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Eik Leong Swee
主持人 : Professor Kamhon Kan
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Swee received his Ph.D. in Economics from University of Toronto in 2010. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at University of Melbourne. His research field are Development Economics, Political Economics, Economics of Conflict, and Applied Microeconomics.
演講摘要 : We examine the effect of income inequality on Arab-Jew conflict intensification in Mandate Palestine. Using archival, primary, and secondary sources, we construct a novel panel data set comprising district-level characteristics and conflict intensity across 18 districts over 22 years (1926-1947). We instrument income inequality by combing annual variation in rainfall with cross-sectional variation in pre-Mandate crop intensity, thus exploiting the relationship between crop harvests and agricultural earnings to extract plausibly exogenous variation in income inequality. Our findings point to a substantial effect of Jew-Arab income inequality on conflict intensification.
