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SUMMARY:Eco-lunch - Jérémy Lucchetti
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DESCRIPTION:This paper highlights that armed groups may use sexual violence
  as a strategy to extort economic resources on civilians. We combine new an
 d fine grained data on local economic resources and sexual violence against
  civilians by armed groups in Africa from 1997 to 2018 at the 0:5 x 0:5 deg
 ree resolution. We show that an exogenous rise in the value of artisanal mi
 ning increases the incidence of sexual violence. We demonstrate how standar
 d rationales of violence as a taxation strategy explain this finding. Theor
 etically\, if the resource is labor intensive\, the armed group need civili
 ans’ labor to produce the resource. Sexual violence\, a form of non-letha
 l violence which allows to enforce high taxation while preserving the local
  labor\, will become more likely if (i) the price of the resource increases
  (rapacity effect)\, and (ii) the resource can be concealed easily (is diff
 icult to tax). Our empirical findings align with our model: a one standard 
 deviation increase in the value of gold mined in artisanal mining areas –
  a labor intensive and easy to conceal resource – increases sexual violen
 ce by two-third of the sample mean. In contrast\, local resources which are
  either more capital intensive than artisanal mining\, or which production 
 is harder to conceal than gold\, have no relation to sexual violence. Moreo
 ver\, we show that the relation between artisanal mining value and sexual v
 iolence is mostly driven by the presence of armed actors who are the most l
 ikely to rely on illegal local taxation (rebel groups).\\n\\nContact: Gaët
 an Fournier: gaetan.fournier[at]univ-amu.frEvgeny Tsodikovich: evgeny.tsodi
 kovich[at]univ-amu.fr\n\nPlus d'informations: https://www.amse-aixmarseille
 .fr/en/events/j%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-lucchetti-0
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CONTACT:Gaëtan Fournier: gaetan.fournier[at]univ-amu.frEvgeny Tsodikovich:
  evgeny.tsodikovich[at]univ-amu.fr
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