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100			_aBenzell, Seth G. and Cooke, Kevin _931145
245			_aA network of thrones: Kinship and conflict in Europe, 1495–1918
260			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
300			_a13(3), Jul, 2021: p.102-133
520			_aAuthors 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. – Reproduced
650			_aConflict, Death Shock, Early Modern Europe, Habsburg, Kinship, Networks, Marriage, War, Genealogy _931146
773			_aAmerican Economic Journal: Applied Economics
906			_aCONFLICTS
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