2 - Blattman & Miguel + Justino

Question 1

The Contest Model

Answer 1

These models predict that poverty lowers individual incentives for
maintaining order, as soldiering increases with the relative returns to fighting versus production

Question 2

The Rational War (Fearon)

Answer 2

Leaders may not always behave rationally

Leaders may be fully rational but not internalise the full cost of conflict because of political agency problems

Leaders might be rational and internalise costs, but find war unavoidable nonetheless