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Oil and Conflict: What Does the Cross Country Evidence Really Show?

Cotet, Anca M, Tsui, Kevin K·2013·American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
DOI 10.1257/mac.5.1.49
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This paper re-examines the effect of oil wealth on political violence. Using a unique historical panel dataset of oil discoveries, we show that simply controlling for country fixed effects removes the statistical association between the value of oil reserves and civil war onset. Other macro-political violence measures, such as coup attempts, are also uncorrelated with oil wealth. To further address endogeneity concerns, we exploit changes in oil reserves due to randomness in the success of oil explorations. We find little robust evidence that oil discoveries increase the likelihood of political violence. Rather, oil discoveries increase military spending in nondemocratic countries. (JEL D74, H56, O17, Q34, Q41)

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Authors
Cotet, A. M., & Tsui, K. K.
Venue
American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Publisher
American Economic Association
Published
2013-01-01
Volume
5
Issue
1
Pages
49-80
ISSN
  • 1945-7707 (ISSN-L)
  • 1945-7715
DOI
10.1257/mac.5.1.49
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309
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Type
journal article
Language
en
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