Youth Bulges and Civil Conflict: Causal Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
The presence of an exceptionally large youth population, that is, a youth bulge, is often associated with an elevated risk of civil conflict. In this article, we develop an instrumental variable approach in which the size of the youth cohorts in Sub-Saharan Africa is identified using variation in bi...
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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publications Inc.
2018
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