TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moscona,Jacob
AU  - Nunn,Nathan
AU  - Robinson,James A.
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Kinship and Conflict: Evidence from Segmentary Lineage Societies in Sub-Saharan Africa 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - January 2018; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We test the long-standing hypothesis that ethnic groups that are organized around 'segmentary lineages' are more prone to conflict. Ethnographic accounts suggest that in segmentary lineage societies, which are characterized by strong allegiances to distant relatives, individuals are obligated to come to the aid of fellow lineage members when they become involved in conflicts. As a consequence, small disagreements often escalate to larger-scale conflicts involving many individuals. We test for this link between segmentary lineage and conflict across 145 African ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa. Using a number of estimation strategies, including an RD design at ethnic boundaries, we find that segmentary lineage societies experience more conflicts and particularly ones that are retaliatory, long in duration, and large in scale
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w24209
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w24209
ER  -