Data And Code For Network Of Thrones: Kinship And Conflict In Europe, 1495 - 1918

Name: Data And Code For Network Of Thrones: Kinship And Conflict In Europe, 1495 - 1918
Published: 2020-01-03
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Seth Benzell, Chapman University; Kevin Cooke, Analysis Group

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Project Citation:

Benzell, Seth, and Cooke, Kevin. Data And Code For Network Of Thrones: Kinship And Conflict In Europe, 1495 - 1918. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2021. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-06-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E117045V2

Project Description

Summary:

We construct a database linking European royal kinship networks, monarchies, and wars to study the effect of family ties on conflict. To establish causality, we exploit decreases in connection caused by apolitical deaths of rulers' mutual relatives. These deaths are associated with substantial increases in the frequency and duration of war. We provide evidence that these deaths affect conflict only through changing the kinship network. Over our period of interest, the percentage of European monarchs with kinship ties increased threefold. Together, these findings help explain the well-documented decrease in European war frequency.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: War; Conflict; Early Modern Europe; Habsburg; Kinship; Network; Marriage; genealogy

JEL Classification:
      D74 Conflict; Conflict Resolution; Alliances; Revolutions
      D85 Network Formation and Analysis: Theory
      F51 International Conflicts; Negotiations; Sanctions
      H56 National Security and War
      N43 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: Europe: Pre-1913
      O19 International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations

Geographic Coverage: Europe

Time Period(s): 1495 – 1918

Data Type(s): observational data; program source code

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