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Journal Article | Jul 2019
Polygynous Neighbors, Excess Men, and Intergroup Conflict in Rural Africa
We argue that polygyny creates a social imbalance where few, economically well-off men marry many wives and many poor men marry late or never. By definition, polygyny produces what we...
in Journal of Conflict Resolution

Journal Article | Jan 2019
The historical roots of cooperative behavior—Evidence from eastern Congo
Cooperative norms and behavior are considered to be essential requirements for sustainable stabilization and development in conflict-affected states. It is therefore particularly important to understand what factors explain their salience...
in World Development vol. 116 pp. 100-112

Report in External Series | 2018
The Customer is King: Evidence on VAT Compliance in Tanzania
Like governments in many other African countries, the Government of Tanzania has been striving to improve the effectiveness of its value added tax (VAT) regime by reducing tax evasion through...
Brighton: International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) (ICTD Working Paper no. 83) 28 p.

Journal Article | 2018
On the way to good health? Rural roads and morbidity in Upland Orissa
This paper investigates the effects of India's rural roads programme (PMGSY) on morbidity, using data on 279 households drawn from 30 villages in upland Orissa. The households were surveyed in...
in Journal of Transport & Health vol. 10 no. September pp. 369-380

CMI Insight | 2018
Property owners’ knowledge and attitudes towards property taxation in Tanzania
Property taxation (PT) is high on the political agenda in Tanzania and considered a cornerstone of the Government’s efforts to strengthen broad based direct taxation. Because it is visible to...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Insight 2018:01) 12 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2018
Kinship, Caste and Health: Illness and Treatment in Upland Orissa
This paper investigates whether an individual’s relationship to the head of household and caste are associated with the level of his or her morbidity and, in the event of illness,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2018:6) 35 p.

CMI Report | 2018
Life skills in non-formal contexts for adolescent girls in developing countries
Executive summary
How can young women in developing countries best be prepared for success in their lives and livelihoods? Life preparation requires learning different types of knowledge and skills in formal,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Report R 2018:5) 115 p.

Journal Article | 2018
Exploring the spatio-temporal processes of communal rangeland grabbing in Sudan
The persistent policy of successive Sudanese governments in favouring large-scale agricultural investments at the expense of traditional land use is creating material differences among significant groups of the population. A...
Springer Open: Research, Policy and Practice

Book | 2018
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The...
Ithaca: Cornell University Press 264 p.

Report in External Series | 2018
How do voters respond to information on self-serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania
Helsinki: UNU-WIDER (WIDER Working Paper no. 11/2018)

Sudan Report | 2018
Community Views on Child Marriage in Kassala: Prospects for Change
Child marriage is any formal marriage or informal union where one or both parties are under 18 years of age. Child marriage affects both boys and girls, but disproportionately affects...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Report SR 2018:1)

Journal Article | 2018
The Great Escape? Converging Refugee Crises in Tyre, Lebanon
This article analyses the convergence of two refugee crises, Palestine (1948-present) and Syria (2012-present), having brought old and new refugees into close, and increasingly, conflictual contact. While the former settled...
in Refugee Survey Quarterly vol. 37 no. 1 pp. 96-115

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Adultery, rape, and escaping the house: The protection and policing of female sexuality in Afghanistan
This working paper undertakes an initial survey of the dynamics through which the criminalization of female sexuality structures women’s access to protection against rape in Afghanistan, examining both legislation and...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:9) 16 p.

CMI Brief | 2017
Petroleum populism: How new resource endowments shape voter choices
High-value natural resources can be a political “curse” when political elites use resource revenues to maintain power, subvert democratic rule, and distribute public goods to their supporters. New resource discoveries...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 11) 4 p.

CMI Brief | 2017
Prospects for peace in a petro-state: Gas extraction and participation in violence in Tanzania
Significant petroleum discoveries in Tanzania have shaped the country’s political discourse in recent years, with politicians promising to turn this newfound resource wealth into rapid economic growth and poverty reduction....
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 10) 4 p.

CMI Brief | 2017
“Making money in Angola is about connections, not hard work”
What do the educated future of Angola make of their future in Angola? A recent survey of university students in Angola documents a grave concern about inequality, and strong preferences...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Brief vol. 16 no. 12) 4 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2017
Compensatory Livestock Thievery: A New Trend in Economic Crime In Dilling/South Kordofan State (2014–2016)
“Compensatory livestock thievery” within the greater Dilling locality in South Kordofan State (SKS) is an economic crime that was born out of a war environment. In this form of crime,...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2017:3) 28 p.

CMI Working Paper | 2017
Usufructuary Mortgages as a Source of Funds in Need: Some Theory and an Empirical Investigation
This paper develops a theoretical framework in which the borrower, who mortgages out, and the lender, who mortgages in, a parcel of land reach their decisions when credit and land...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI Working Paper WP 2017:6) 45 p.

Sudan Working Paper | 2017
Poverty among Sudanese communities along the eastern borders: A case study from the Kassala and Gedarif States
The data for this paper was collected through a survey aimed at reviewing the socioeconomic conditions of the communities living along the Sudanese border between Eritrea and Ethiopia. The survey...
Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (Sudan Working Paper SWP 2017:2) 16 p.

Report in External Series | 2017
It Takes a Female Chief: Gender and Effective Policy Advocacy in Malawi
Traditional leadership often coexists with modernpolitical institutions, yet we know little about how traditional and state authority cues—or those from male or female sources—affect public support for human rights issues....
Gothenburg: The Program on Governance and Local Development, University of Gothenburg no. Working Paper No. 11