Oeindrila Dube presents at the last ESOP lunch seminar this spring. The seminar is held joint with the Friday seminar June 18, 2010. At room 1047, Eilert Sundts hus, at the usual time 12:30-13:30.
Dube’s research focuses on the political economy of conflict and development. One strand seeks to understand the economic causes and consequences of civil war. Focusing on Colombia, she has analyzed how international price shocks to agricultural and natural resource exports have affected civil war dynamics and assessed how U.S. military aid affects political violence and electoral outcomes. She has also investigated how armed conflict, in turn, affects economic activity such as firm investment. Her current work in this area also seeks to understand how changes in U.S. gun legislation have affected drug-war violence in Mexico, and how local-level reconciliation efforts affect poverty and violence in West Africa. A second strand of her research focuses on access to basic services in post-conflict nations. In this area, her current work uses randomized evaluation to examine how institutions and incentives, financial and non-financial, affect access to health services in Sierra Leone.