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Replication Data for: Diversity and Violence During Conflict Migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland

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Title Replication Data for: Diversity and Violence During Conflict Migration: The Troubles in Northern Ireland
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/56PIVI
 
Creator McCord, Gordon C.
Adida, Claire L.
Brown, Joseph M.
McLachlan, Paul
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Diversity’s effect on violence is ambiguous. Some studies find that diverse areas
experience more violence; others find the opposite. Yet conflict displaces and
intimidates people, creating measurement challenges. We propose a novel indicator
of diversity that circumvents these problems: the location of physical structures at
disaggregated geographical levels. We introduce this solution in the context of the
Troubles in Northern Ireland. Our data reveal a curvilinear relationship between
diversity and conflict-related deaths, with the steepest increase at low diversity, driven
by an increase in violence when our proxy for the Catholic proportion of the population
rises from zero to twenty percent. These patterns are consistent with a theory of group
threat through exposure.
 
Subject Social Sciences
diversity
violence
 
Contributor McCord, Gordon