Resources and Governance in Sierra Leone’s Civil War
研究了1991-2002年塞拉利昂内战期间，自然资源和治理质量如何影响冲突强度的变化，发现两者均不能稳健解释暴力的发生或持续时间。
We empirically investigate the role of natural resources, and governance in explaining variation in the intensity of conflict during the 1991–2002 civil war in Sierra Leone. As a proxy for governance quality we exploit exogenous variation in political competition at the level of the chieftaincy. As a proxy for resources we use data on the location of pre-war mining sites. Our main result is that neither governance nor resources robustly explains the onset or duration of violence during the civil war in Sierra Leone.