% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw15095, title = "War and Relatedness", author = "Spolaore, Enrico and Wacziarg, Romain", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "15095", year = "2009", month = "June", doi = {10.3386/w15095}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w15095", abstract = {We develop a theory of interstate conflict in which the degree of genealogical relatedness between populations has a positive effect on their conflict propensities because more closely related populations, on average, tend to interact more and develop more disputes over sets of common issues. We examine the empirical relationship between the occurrence of interstate conflicts and the degree of relatedness between countries, showing that populations that are genetically closer are more prone to go to war with each other, even after controlling for a wide set of measures of geographic distance and other factors that affect conflict, including measures of trade and democracy.}, }