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Paul Maximilian Schaudt
Title
Dr.
Last Name
Schaudt
First name
Paul Maximilian
Email
paul.schaudt@unisg.ch
Phone
+41 71 224 3161
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PublicationInsuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict *( 2024-01)
;Gehring, KaiWe provide quasi-experimental evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate drought-induced conflict. Droughts are a major driver of conflict in Africa, particularly between nomadic pastoralists and sedentary farmers. The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) piloted in Kenya provides automated, preemptive payouts to pastoralists affected by droughts. Combining plausibly exogenous variation in rainfall and the staggered rollout of IBLI in Kenya over the 2001-2020 period, we find that IBLI strongly reduces drought-induced conflict. Key mechanisms are an income smoothing effect and reduced migratory pressure for pastoralists, reducing the likelihood of miscoordination with other land users. Our study suggests that market-based solutions are a scalable, cost-effective pathway to mitigate conflict, complementing political solutions such as institutional reforms.Type: conference paper -
PublicationEthnofederalism and ethnic voting *( 2024-08-15)
;Richard BluhmWe study how the design of subnational political borders shapes the ethnicization of national politics. We introduce novel measures that approximate the extent to which political boundaries follow a country's ethnic geography. We then analyze the effects of the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which divided the country's eight provinces into 47 counties and devolved power to these new counties. Using difference-indifference designs, we find that ethnofederal reforms, reforms that increase the alignment between political divisions and ethnic geography, reduce ethnic voting in national elections. A key channel is that ethnofederalism "tranquilizes" locally powerful groups that control the provision of local public goods. Finally, we evaluate the counterfactual effects of alternative boundary proposals on ethnic voting in Kenya.Type: conference paper -
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