Mathieu Couttenier

Research Interests:     Political Economy and Economic Development

                                    Civil Conflicts / Natural Resources / Media

Work in Progress

• "The Economic Costs of Conflict: A Production Network Approach" (with N. Monnet and L. Piemontese) R&R Review of Economic Studies 
  [CEPR Version - 01/2022]

• "Artisanal and Small-Scale Mines in Africa: Where, When and Why"

• The Gravity of violence: Embedding Conflicts in Quantitative Spatial Models” (with J.Marcoux, T.Mayer and M.Thoenig)

• "Dear Brothers and Sisters: Pope's Speeches and the Dynamics of Conflict in Africa" (with S.Hatte, L.Laugerette and T.Sonno)

• "Groundwater, climate change and conflict: Empirical Evidence from Africa" (with R.Jedwab and L.Laugerette)

• “Inequality and Social Unrest in India”, (with J.Lucchetti and L.Vandewalle)

• "Far-right Ownership in the Printed Press and Public Policy", (with S.Hatte, T.Taylor and S.Vlachos) 

• "Electric cooking and sustainable development: experimental evidence from eastern D.R. Congo" (with S.Desbureaux,  L.Collart, N.Stoop, M.Verpoorten, R.Soubeyran, N.Shinagawa, JdlC.Kembere and C.Musharhamina)

Publications

• "Natural Resources and Ethnic Identity" (with N. Berman and V. Girard) [Final version]
  Economic Journal (Forthcoming)

• "Anti-Muslim Voting and Media Coverage of Immigrant Crimes",  (with Sophie Hatte, Mathias Thoenig and Stephanos Vlachos) [New Version: Paper -- Online Appendix]
  Previously ciruclated with the title: The Logic of Fear:  Populism & the Media Coverage of Immigrants Crimes ''  [CEPR Working Paper DP13496]
  Review of Economics and Statistics (2024), Volume 106, issue 2

•  “Agricultural Commodities and Tropical Deforestation” (with N.Berman, A.Leblois and R.Soubeyran) 

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2023) Final version

• “Mapping Artisanal and Small-Scale Mines at Large Scale from Space with Deep Learning” (with S.Di Rollo, L.Inguere, M.Mohand and L.Schmidt) [Published Version: Paper]
  Plos One (2022)

• "Shudown policies and conflict worldwide",  (with Nicolas Berman, Nathalie Monnet and Rohit Ticku) [Last version] [Covid Economic - CEPR Press] [Online Appendix to CEPR version]
  Journal of Comparative Economics (2022) Volume 50, Issue 1

• "Fertile Ground for Conflict'' (with Nicolas Berman and Raphael Soubeyran) [CEPR Working Paper: DP12211]
  Journal of European Economic Association (2021), Volume 19, Issue 19-1 (Paper)

• "The Violent Legacy of Victimization: Post-conflict Evidence on Asylum Seekers, Crimes and Public Policy in Switzerland" (with V. Preotu, D.Rohner and M.Thoenig) [Published Version : Paper -- Online Appendix] [CEPR Working Paper: DP11079]                              
  American Economic Review (2019), 109(12): 4378–4425 

• "This mine is mine! How minerals fuel conflicts in Africa" (with Nicolas Berman, Dominic Rohner and Mathias Thoenig)  [Published Version: Paper -- Online Appendix ]
  American Economic Review (2017), Vol.107, Issue 6                                                                                                                                                                         

• "The Wild West is Wild: The Homicide Resource Curse", (with Pauline Grosjean and Marc Sangnier)  [Published Version] [Working Paper] [Replication Files]                                   
  Journal of European Economic Association (2017), Volume 15-3

• "Corruption for Sales" (with Farid Toubal)  [Paper]                                                                                                                                                        
  Journal of Comparative Economics (2017), Volume 45, Issue 1, pp 55-66

• "Mass Media Effects on Advocacy Non-Governmental Organizations", (with Sophie Hatte)  [Paper - Online Appendix]   
  Journal of Development Economics (2016), Volume 123, p57-72

• "External Shocks, Internal Shots: the Geography of Civil Conflicts", (with Nicolas Berman) [CEPR DP9895]  [Published Version]   [Replications Files]                                                     
  Review of Economics and Statistics (2015) Volume 97, No.4 : 758-776  

• "Untouchability, Homicides and Water Access", (with Catherine Bros) [Published Version]           
  Journal of Comparative Economics (2015),  Volume 43, Issue 3, pp 549-555

• "Living in the Garden of Eden: Mineral Resources and Preferences for Redistribution", (with Marc Sangnier)  [Published Version]                                                                                                         
  Journal of Comparative Economics (2015), Volume 43, Issue 2, pp. 243-256  

• "A Survey of the Causes of Civil Conflicts: Natural Factors and Economic Conditions", (with Raphael Soubeyran)    
  Revue Economie Politique (2015), Volume 126, pp.787-810

• "Drought and Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa", (with Raphael Soubeyran)  [Published Version] [Replication Files] Economic Journal, (2014), Volume 124, Issue 575, pp. 201-240 

• "L’effet conditionnel des ressources naturelles sur les institutions" [Version WP]
  Revue Economique, (2012) Volume 63 N°1

Book Chapters

• "Mineral extraction and conflict in the era of green technologies: Implications and consequences "[LINK]
  In "Peace not Pollution How Going Green Can Tackle Both Climate Change and Toxic Politics ", e-book, CEPR Press

• “La conflictualité armée”, editions A.Pedone, University of Bordeaux (in French) 2022

• "Conflict in Times of Covid-19",  (with Nicolas Berman, Nathalie Monnet and Rohit Ticku) [LINK]
  Covid-19 in Developing Economies, CEPR Press. 

Dormant Papers

• "Communication Strategies of Non-Governmental Organizations: Theory and Evidence'' (with S. Hatte, P. Fleckinger and M. Glachant)

• “The Impact of Mining Activity on Environment” (with M.Fort-Claisse)