15:00 - 16:40
P4
Room: Terrace 2B
Panel Session 4
Sergi Martínez - Backlash against the US: evidence from WWII in Italy
Daniele Guariso - From Black to Lead . The legacy of Fascism on Political Violence in Italy 1969-1988
Scott Gates - The Effect of Armed Conflict on the Sustainable Development Goals: Applying Synthetic Control Methods
Tore Wig - How War Shapes Science: Empirical evidence from 60 million publications
Simon Hug - The consequences of one-sided violence on inter-ethnic relations
Caroline Brandt, Laura Huber - The Gendered Effects of UN Peacebuilding
How War Shapes Science: Empirical evidence from 60 million publications
P4-02
Presented by: Tore Wig
Tore Wig 1, Haakon Gjerløw 2
1 University of Oslo
2 Peace Research Institute Oslo
How is the production of knowledge affected by war? Some claim that war is an engine
of innovation, while there are several examples of war being a destructive force. This paper
considers the effects of civil and interstate wars on international published research, combining
data on 60 million publications from the ISI web of science with conflict data, 1950-2020.. Using a synthetic diff-in-diff framework, we first consider whether war has an overall impact on research publications per capita, while moving on to look at different academic fields. Finally, we use geolocated data on universities and their publication output to see how conflict-activity
affects science in the locations where conficts take place.