Tim Wegenast
Biographic Data
| ID | 1417288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Wegenast |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Wegenast |
| SIGNATURE | WEGENAST T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8904-0372 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Women's Empowerment and Climate Adaptation
Promoting gender equality, adapting to climate change, and ensuring food security are pressing global challenges. This study highlights the interlinkages among these issues, arguing that women's empowerment through joint land ownership enhances households’ food security amid increasing climate vulnerability. Specifically, we claim that joint land ownership strengthens women's bargaining power within households, leading to the adoption of climate-…
Access denied
Conflicts involving pastoralists have been on the rise in the past two decades in West, Central and East Africa. This article argues that land alienation is a major source of this type of violence. We employ a narrow identification strategy of relevant pastoral conflicts based on the Armed Conflict Location Event Dataset and create a unique indicator of land alienation comprised of three types of land use changes (conversion of land into conserva…
Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa
Moving from Norms Rhetorics to Norms Empirics
We have recently established together with Ingeborg Hess Elgersma that different ownership arrangements in the extractive industry affect gender equality in contrasting ways (Krauser et al. 2019).While international investment in the mining industry lowers female labor market integration, it also reduces the risk of intimate partner violence.These results add to the proposition of our earlier studies that the resource curse literature needs to co…
Mining, rural livelihoods and food security
The Micro-Foundations of the Resource Curse
The quantitative evidence on whether extractive industries generate economic wealth at the local level is far from conclusive. In line with recent studies highlighting the moderating role of institutions and governance structures in the resource–development nexus, we argue that the effect of mining on local economic well-being is largely driven by different control rights regimes. We claim that domestic mineral production stimulates local income …
Temperatures, food riots, and adaptation
A large body of research indicates that environmental conditions can influence the risk of social unrest. However, we know little about how these effects may change in the long run. Are they likely to remain constant or do they change over time - for example as a consequence of human adaptation? To investigate this question, we rely on a disaggregated analysis of England over a period of more than 300 years. Combining data on geo-referenced food …
At Africa’s expense? Disaggregating the employment effects of Chinese mining operations in sub-Saharan Africa
Ownership matters
The Hard Power of Natural Resources
According to conventional wisdom, strategic natural resources like oil are harmful to international peace. Nonetheless, there is little comparative work on the link between resources and interstate conflicts. Analyzing the impact of oil on militarized interstate disputes on the dyadic level of analysis for the period from 1946 to 2001, this paper shows that oil in fact influences the conflict potential between countries. Results of logistic regre…
Oil, Natural Gas, and Intrastate Conflict
The impact of natural resources on intrastate violence has been increasingly analyzed in the peace and conflict literature. Surprisingly, little quantitative evidence has been gathered on the effects of the resource-ownership structure on internal violence. This article uses a novel data set on oil and natural gas property rights, covering 40 countries during the period 1989–2010. The results of regression analyses employing logit models reveal t…
Ethnic fractionalization, natural resources and armed conflict
Thus far, researchers working on ethnicity and resources as determinants of civil conflict have operated largely independently of each other. While there is plenty of evidence that natural resources may spur armed conflict, empirical evidence for the nexus between ethnic fractionalization and conflict remains inconclusive. Some authors conclude that ethnically fractionalized societies are actually spared from intrastate violence. Others find eith…
Opening Pandora’s box? Inclusive institutions and the onset of internal conflict in oil-rich countries
The literature on institutional determinants of intra-state violence commonly asserts that the presence of multiple political parties reduces the conflict potential within countries. By co-opting oppositional groups into an institutionalized political arena, dissidents would prefer parliamentary means over violent rebellion in order to pursue their goals. The present article shows that this proposition does not necessarily hold true for resource-…
Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa
Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Theoretically, the “mobilization hypothesis” establishes a link between religion and conflict by arguing that particular religious structures are prone to mobilization; once politicized, escalation to violent conflict becomes more likely. Yet, despite the religious diversity in sub-Saharan Africa and the religious overtones in a number of African conflicts, this assumption has not yet been backed by systematic empirical research on the religion–c…
Cana, café, cacau
The present paper explores the relationship between agrarian structure and human capital formation between and within Brazil’s federal units. It is argued that whether states’ agriculture is in plantation style, based on cheap coerced labor, or organized around family farming matters for the formulation of educational policies. According to the main claim, landlords were not interested in paying higher taxes to educate the masses and curtailed th…
The Legacy of Landlords
Oil and Diamonds as Causes of Civil War in sub-Saharan Africa
Una investigación reciente ha incrementado el cuestionamiento sobre el vínculo entre los recursos naturales y el conflicto violento, haciendo énfasis en la importancia de las condiciones de contexto específicas a los recursos bajo las cuales se vuelven más probables los conflictos internos. Este trabajo se dedica a hacer un análisis sistemático de seis de estas condiciones específicas a los recursos comparando 15 países africanos productores de p…
Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Theoretically, the “mobilization hypothesis” establishes a link between religion and conflict by arguing that particular religious structures are prone to mobilization; once politicized, escalation to violent conflict becomes more likely. Yet, despite the religious diversity in sub-Saharan Africa and the religious overtones in a number of African conflicts, this assumption has not yet been backed by systematic empirical research on the religion–c…
Ethnic fractionalization, natural resources and armed conflict
Thus far, researchers working on ethnicity and resources as determinants of civil conflict have operated largely independently of each other. While there is plenty of evidence that natural resources may spur armed conflict, empirical evidence for the nexus between ethnic fractionalization and conflict remains inconclusive. Some authors conclude that ethnically fractionalized societies are actually spared from intrastate violence. Others find eith…
Mining, rural livelihoods and food security
At Africa’s expense? Disaggregating the employment effects of Chinese mining operations in sub-Saharan Africa
Cana, café, cacau
The present paper explores the relationship between agrarian structure and human capital formation between and within Brazil’s federal units. It is argued that whether states’ agriculture is in plantation style, based on cheap coerced labor, or organized around family farming matters for the formulation of educational policies. According to the main claim, landlords were not interested in paying higher taxes to educate the masses and curtailed th…
Opening Pandora’s box? Inclusive institutions and the onset of internal conflict in oil-rich countries
The literature on institutional determinants of intra-state violence commonly asserts that the presence of multiple political parties reduces the conflict potential within countries. By co-opting oppositional groups into an institutionalized political arena, dissidents would prefer parliamentary means over violent rebellion in order to pursue their goals. The present article shows that this proposition does not necessarily hold true for resource-…
The Micro-Foundations of the Resource Curse
The quantitative evidence on whether extractive industries generate economic wealth at the local level is far from conclusive. In line with recent studies highlighting the moderating role of institutions and governance structures in the resource–development nexus, we argue that the effect of mining on local economic well-being is largely driven by different control rights regimes. We claim that domestic mineral production stimulates local income …
Ownership matters
Oil, Natural Gas, and Intrastate Conflict
The impact of natural resources on intrastate violence has been increasingly analyzed in the peace and conflict literature. Surprisingly, little quantitative evidence has been gathered on the effects of the resource-ownership structure on internal violence. This article uses a novel data set on oil and natural gas property rights, covering 40 countries during the period 1989–2010. The results of regression analyses employing logit models reveal t…
Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa
Temperatures, food riots, and adaptation
A large body of research indicates that environmental conditions can influence the risk of social unrest. However, we know little about how these effects may change in the long run. Are they likely to remain constant or do they change over time - for example as a consequence of human adaptation? To investigate this question, we rely on a disaggregated analysis of England over a period of more than 300 years. Combining data on geo-referenced food …
Oil and Diamonds as Causes of Civil War in sub-Saharan Africa
Una investigación reciente ha incrementado el cuestionamiento sobre el vínculo entre los recursos naturales y el conflicto violento, haciendo énfasis en la importancia de las condiciones de contexto específicas a los recursos bajo las cuales se vuelven más probables los conflictos internos. Este trabajo se dedica a hacer un análisis sistemático de seis de estas condiciones específicas a los recursos comparando 15 países africanos productores de p…
The Legacy of Landlords
Oil and Diamonds as Causes of Civil War in sub-Saharan Africa
Una investigación reciente ha incrementado el cuestionamiento sobre el vínculo entre los recursos naturales y el conflicto violento, haciendo énfasis en la importancia de las condiciones de contexto específicas a los recursos bajo las cuales se vuelven más probables los conflictos internos. Este trabajo se dedica a hacer un análisis sistemático de seis de estas condiciones específicas a los recursos comparando 15 países africanos productores de p…
Cana, café, cacau
The present paper explores the relationship between agrarian structure and human capital formation between and within Brazil’s federal units. It is argued that whether states’ agriculture is in plantation style, based on cheap coerced labor, or organized around family farming matters for the formulation of educational policies. According to the main claim, landlords were not interested in paying higher taxes to educate the masses and curtailed th…
Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa
Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Theoretically, the “mobilization hypothesis” establishes a link between religion and conflict by arguing that particular religious structures are prone to mobilization; once politicized, escalation to violent conflict becomes more likely. Yet, despite the religious diversity in sub-Saharan Africa and the religious overtones in a number of African conflicts, this assumption has not yet been backed by systematic empirical research on the religion–c…
Ethnic fractionalization, natural resources and armed conflict
Thus far, researchers working on ethnicity and resources as determinants of civil conflict have operated largely independently of each other. While there is plenty of evidence that natural resources may spur armed conflict, empirical evidence for the nexus between ethnic fractionalization and conflict remains inconclusive. Some authors conclude that ethnically fractionalized societies are actually spared from intrastate violence. Others find eith…
Opening Pandora’s box? Inclusive institutions and the onset of internal conflict in oil-rich countries
The literature on institutional determinants of intra-state violence commonly asserts that the presence of multiple political parties reduces the conflict potential within countries. By co-opting oppositional groups into an institutionalized political arena, dissidents would prefer parliamentary means over violent rebellion in order to pursue their goals. The present article shows that this proposition does not necessarily hold true for resource-…
Oil, Natural Gas, and Intrastate Conflict
The impact of natural resources on intrastate violence has been increasingly analyzed in the peace and conflict literature. Surprisingly, little quantitative evidence has been gathered on the effects of the resource-ownership structure on internal violence. This article uses a novel data set on oil and natural gas property rights, covering 40 countries during the period 1989–2010. The results of regression analyses employing logit models reveal t…
The Hard Power of Natural Resources
According to conventional wisdom, strategic natural resources like oil are harmful to international peace. Nonetheless, there is little comparative work on the link between resources and interstate conflicts. Analyzing the impact of oil on militarized interstate disputes on the dyadic level of analysis for the period from 1946 to 2001, this paper shows that oil in fact influences the conflict potential between countries. Results of logistic regre…
Ownership matters
At Africa’s expense? Disaggregating the employment effects of Chinese mining operations in sub-Saharan Africa
Moving from Norms Rhetorics to Norms Empirics
We have recently established together with Ingeborg Hess Elgersma that different ownership arrangements in the extractive industry affect gender equality in contrasting ways (Krauser et al. 2019).While international investment in the mining industry lowers female labor market integration, it also reduces the risk of intimate partner violence.These results add to the proposition of our earlier studies that the resource curse literature needs to co…
Mining, rural livelihoods and food security
The Micro-Foundations of the Resource Curse
The quantitative evidence on whether extractive industries generate economic wealth at the local level is far from conclusive. In line with recent studies highlighting the moderating role of institutions and governance structures in the resource–development nexus, we argue that the effect of mining on local economic well-being is largely driven by different control rights regimes. We claim that domestic mineral production stimulates local income …
Temperatures, food riots, and adaptation
A large body of research indicates that environmental conditions can influence the risk of social unrest. However, we know little about how these effects may change in the long run. Are they likely to remain constant or do they change over time - for example as a consequence of human adaptation? To investigate this question, we rely on a disaggregated analysis of England over a period of more than 300 years. Combining data on geo-referenced food …
Grabbed trust? The impact of large-scale land acquisitions on social trust in Africa
Access denied
Conflicts involving pastoralists have been on the rise in the past two decades in West, Central and East Africa. This article argues that land alienation is a major source of this type of violence. We employ a narrow identification strategy of relevant pastoral conflicts based on the Armed Conflict Location Event Dataset and create a unique indicator of land alienation comprised of three types of land use changes (conversion of land into conserva…
Women's Empowerment and Climate Adaptation
Promoting gender equality, adapting to climate change, and ensuring food security are pressing global challenges. This study highlights the interlinkages among these issues, arguing that women's empowerment through joint land ownership enhances households’ food security amid increasing climate vulnerability. Specifically, we claim that joint land ownership strengthens women's bargaining power within households, leading to the adoption of climate-…
Economics (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Natural Resources and Economic Development (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Development economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Natural resource (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (6 works)