Rain, growth, and civil war: The importance of location. Sandholt Jensen, P. & Skrede Gleditsch, K. Defence and Peace Economics, 20(5):359–372, 2009.
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We re‐examine the Miguel et al. (2004 Miguel, E., Satyanath, S. and Sergenti, E. 2004. Economic shocks and civil conflict: an instrumental variables approach. Journal of Political Economy, 112(4): 725–753. – in our view, erroneously – include countries participating in civil wars in other states. Restricting the conflict data to states with conflict on their own territory reduces the estimated impact of economic growth on civil war. We show how spatial correlations in rainfall growth and participation in civil conflicts induce a stronger apparent relationship in the mis‐classified data.
@article{sandholt_jensen_rain_2009,
	title = {Rain, growth, and civil war: {The} importance of location},
	volume = {20},
	shorttitle = {Rain, growth, and civil war},
	abstract = {We re‐examine the Miguel et al. (2004 Miguel, E., Satyanath, S. and Sergenti, E. 2004. Economic shocks and civil conflict: an instrumental variables approach. Journal of Political Economy, 112(4): 725–753. – in our view, erroneously – include countries participating in civil wars in other states. Restricting the conflict data to states with conflict on their own territory reduces the estimated impact of economic growth on civil war. We show how spatial correlations in rainfall growth and participation in civil conflicts induce a stronger apparent relationship in the mis‐classified data.},
	number = {5},
	journal = {Defence and Peace Economics},
	author = {Sandholt Jensen, Peter and Skrede Gleditsch, Kristian},
	year = {2009},
	keywords = {CK, Untagged},
	pages = {359--372},
}

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